Lise McCarthy

Lise McCarthy is a licensed professional fiduciary and owner of McCarthy Fiduciary Services based in San Francisco, California. She is also a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Geriatric Physical Therapy. Pre-pandemic, she served her community through her clinical practice for 20 years by providing comprehensive examination and treatment for people impacted by complex movement-related impairments and limitations impacted by cognitive and mental health illnesses and disorders. She has been an Assistant Clinical Professor, Volunteer Faculty member at the University of California at San Francisco, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science since 2014. She served as the Founding Chair of the Cognitive and Mental Health Special Interest Group of the American Physical Therapy Association Geriatrics where she focused her efforts on collaborating with other similarly minded physical therapists and physical therapist assistants (all over the United States and internationally) in publishing multi-media materials (e.g. peer-reviewed and clinical articles; assistant editor, guest editor and board member of GeriNotes; national lectures for APTA, Family Caregiver Alliance; development of PTNow Test and Measures; poster presentations.) For her exceptional service and commitment to the APTA’s Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy, she received the 2018 Presidents award. She has worked with researchers and developers at UCSF, Samuel Merritt University, and In-Step Mobility. She has also delivered multiple local, state, and national talks and speeches, in addition to workshops and videos on topics related to cognitive and mental health, fall risk, and pain, including as the Keynote Speaker for California’s 13^th Senate District for Senator Elaine Alquist’s Women’s Health Forum in 2011. Since 2018, she has worked as a fiduciary and sees many opportunities for clinical home health education to help advance the work she now does as a fiduciary and in her role as San Francisco’s chapter president of the Professional Fiduciary Association of California.