Senior Physical Therapist Assistant
Barnes Jewish West County Hospital
Elissa Karbarski, LPTA, is a Senior Physical Therapist Assistant and part of Barnes Jewish West County Hospital's rehabilitation leadership team. She has been a physical therapist assistant for 25 years, primarily in the acute and orthopaedic settings. She is a safe patient handling champion, regulatory readiness champion, a member of the falls committee and the resiliency champion for the hospital. She volunteers for the American Heart Association and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She earned her AA, AS and AAS from Southwestern Illinois College (formerly Belleville Area College).