About Us
The Northern California Clinical Education Consortium (NCCEC) is a partnership between academic education and clinical practice that provides leadership for clinical education programs and clinical faculty development. Each academic program in Northern California, which has achieved a minimum of candidacy status from the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), is represented along with Site Coordinators of Clinical Education (SCCEs) from physical therapy clinics and hospitals throughout the region.
NCCEC meets quarterly to discuss, network, and aggressively explore opportunities and visionary ideas to foster and support dynamic clinical education environments. Our goal is to create environments that enable students to transition into competent and socially responsible professionals who understand, respond, and promote creative problem solving in the rapidly changing, competitive healthcare delivery system. We explore, design, and implement innovations to assist practitioners in the provision of quality learning experiences to maintain excellence in clinical education.
New Members: If interested in becoming a member please contact, Chrissy Hauer: c.hauer@csus.edu
Mission
The Northern California Clinical Education Consortium (NCCEC) is an organization dedicated to the development, implementation, and support of quality clinical education for Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant students.
Serving the Following Regions
The Northern California Clinical Education Consortium (NCCEC) covers clinical sites and PT and PTA programs from Bakersfield up North to the Southern Oregon Border.
Academic Representatives
Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Programs


Sarah Pawlowsky
Assistant Director of Clinical Education
University of California San Francisco/San Francisco State University

Alisa Vanderkar
Assistant Director of Clinical Education
California State University, Sacramento

Jo Bergh
Director of Clinical Education
University of California San Francisco/San Francisco State University

Alicia Rabena-Amen
Director of Clinical Education

Sheryl Ettinger
Director of Clinical Education
Samuel Merritt University, Oakland

Jennifer Roos
Director of Clinical Education
Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) Programs


Jana L. Emmons
Director of Clinical Education
Carrington College, Pleasant Hill



Jeff McCormick
Director of Clinical Education



Heather Porter
Director of Clinical Education


Jason Ament
Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education
Bakersfield College
jason.ament@bakersfieldcollege.edu

Nicole Marquez
Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education
College of the Sequoias
nicolema@cos.edu
Clinical Representatives
Site Coordinators of Clinical Education (SCCE)
Paul D. Smith
Community Regional Medical Center Fresno

Queen Phamle
Kaiser Diablo Service Area (Dept of Rehabilitation)

Suzie Maciel
Sutter Valley Hospitals & Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

Fatema Ghani
Golden Bear Physical Therapy

Michael Sterken
UC Davis Medical Center (Inpatient)

M. Casey Maynard
UC Davis Medical Center (Outpatient)

Salvador Sanchez
UC Davis Medical Center (Inpatient)
NCCEC Member Emeritus


Heidi Garske

