Ann Porter Hoke received her Diploma in Physiotherapy from St Thomas' Hospital, London in 1971, her BSc PT from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in 1982 and completed a post professional doctorate at Pacific University, OR in 2008. She is a Fellow of both the Canadian and American Manual and Manipulation Academies and is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Specialist. She trained and then worked with James Cyriax MD in London, England London from 1967-72, with manual therapists in Vancouver, BC from 1972-82, and has been in clinical practice in Oregon since 1983, currently at New Heights Integrative Therapy in SE Portland.
She has served on numerous OMPT committees including the Standards Committee for IFOMT, Standards and Examination Committees for the AAOMPT, and has been involved in the development of publications that include the Description of Advanced Specialist Practice in OMPT (1998 and 2008).
Her publications include development of NAIOMT course manuals over 20 years.
She is a senior faculty, senior examiner, clinical fellowship director and clinical instructor with NAIOMT, and has 35 years of teaching and 40 years of clinical experience. She teaches all levels of NAIOMT core classes in mobilization and manipulation/thrust, specialty classes on extremity manipulation, spinal instability and subacute MVA, and provides off-site clinical instruction primarily in Oregon and Washington.
Her awards include: Mercedes Weiss, from Oregon PT Association (1996) and the John McM. Mennell Service Award from AAOMPT in 2006.