Lori D

Lori DeLaney has been the Executive Director at Tichenor Orthopedic Clinic for Children, a nonprofit community clinic, since 1994. She is responsible for strategic planning, programs, fiscal management, and operations. Lori has a physical therapy degree from Mayo Clinic. She received her Master's degree in Health Administration and her Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree at Western University of Health Sciences.The Clinic's history begins with the influential civic leader and philanthropist, Adelaide Tichenor. Based on personal experience, she was a firm believer in the treatment of orthopedic problems during childhood. Her dream to help children with chronic orthopedic disabilities, regardless of their ability to pay, was realized with the opening of the Tichenor Orthopedic Clinic for Children in 1926.
At that time, the Clinic helped children affected by polio and infantile paralysis and opened the first school in Long Beach for children with physical disabilities. Later, the Clinic operated the city's premier bone bank and developed some of the first metal implants for joint replacement in children.