Shepherd Center - A Catastrophic Care Hospital

Ismari Clesson oversees the clinical trials team, which specializes in acute and chronic spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, stroke, pain and urology research. Clesson received a nursing degree from the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing in Atlanta. She joined Shepherd Center in 1989. She has worked as a rehabilitation nurse, manager for outpatient services and was instrumental in the founding of the MS Center and clinical research trials at Shepherd Center. Clesson also served as community and physician liaison for the Center for two years. She was certified as a rehabilitation nurse in 1992 and became a multiple sclerosis certified nurse in 2002. Clesson has been a Certified Clinical Research Professional since 2003.