Jeffrey Brandt CPO

Founder of the award-winning Ability Prosthetics and Orthotics, an evidence supported P&O practice with fourteen offices across three states. Since its inception in 2004, Ability has led the advancement and implementation of outcome measures in daily practice, prioritizing a focus on patient care delivery, business analytics, community based adaptive programs and comparative effectiveness product research and development. Brandt also established Lifenhanced magazine and is a co-founder of Kinetic Revolutions of which the most notable product is the height-adjustable pylon for use on prosthetic limbs. Ability was acquired in 2020 by global leader, Ottobock Healthcare, where Brandt served as the VP of Clinical Operations and the Director of Business Development for ottobock.care until 2022.

After graduating from Penn State University, Brandt completed the prosthetics technician program at Spokane Falls Community College and then attended the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Prosthetic & Orthotic programs. He completed orthotic and prosthetic residencies at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Lawall P&O, servicing A.I. DuPont Children’s Hospital, respectively. As a student, Brandt was awarded the Gunther Gehl Prosthetics Scholarship by the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (AAOP) and has been named to the O&P News 175, is a ROMP Empowerment Through Mobility Award winner and most recently, received the AAOP’s 2022 Distinguished Practitioner Award.

Brandt has served as a board member (and past treasurer) for the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA), is an advisory board member of two O&P master’s programs, as well as an advisor & investor in multiple earlier stage healthcare ventures. He recently published a manuscript in the Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal on the Changing Operational Perspectives in the Prosthetics & Orthotics Profession and was an author on Creation of a Limb Loss and Preservation Registry for Improving the Quality of Patient Care in the United States, published in the Archives of Rehabilitation Research & Clinical Translation detailing the current efforts as a member of the Limb Loss & Preservation Registry’s External Collaborative Panel (ECP), focused on designing and operationalizing a quality registry. Most recently, Jeff has joined Hanger Clinics Products & Services Advisory Board. Jeff resides in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife Rachael and three children, Ian, JJ and Caroline. He enjoys running, skiing and traveling.