Our Bay City Rehabilitation Staff

Sunil Malewar
Sunil is the president and owner of Paramount Rehabilitation Services. He graduated from a university in India in 1981 and owned a private practice there. Before opening...

Manjusha Malewar
Manju serves as the Rehab Director for Paramount Rehabilitation Services. After graduating from India in 1990 as a Physical Therapist, Manjusha worked in an Outpatient Rehab...

Ashley Slater
Ashley loves everything about working in health care. “I like the diverse patient load. I get to see kids here, but I also get to see adults, neuro patients, vestibular...

Sheri Karst
Sheri has spent most of her career at Paramount, joining the team in 2000. She loves the variety of patients she sees and is grateful for a good working atmosphere and...

Lauren Matherne
Lauren works with patients of all ages, but feels a special calling to work with the very youngest children. Before joining Paramount in 2016, Lauren worked with children...

Megan Monroe
Megan joined Paramount in 2013 after completing rotations in a hospital and leading a stroke support group. One thing she values about Paramount is the focus on patients....

Darlene Matlock
Darlene has known since she was 7 years old and learning to sign the alphabet that she wanted to help people communicate. Today, she holds a Master of Arts with a Clinical...

Kelly Erdody
Kelly specializes in using hands-on manual therapy to relieve neck and back pain. She also specializes in women’s health. Her passion is helping people regain function so they...

Luke Finkbeiner
Luke brings a broad background to his job. He was a massage therapist for 16 years before Paramount Owner Sunil Malewar encouraged him to go back to school and become an LPTA....

Scott Garzell
Scott, who joined Paramount in 2015, is a fitness buff who loves that his job lets him help others return to an active lifestyle. In addition to his degree as a Physical...

Mina Robinson
Mina earned an Associates Degree in Applied Science in 1983. She was drawn to this field because she has a strong compassion for people and wants to help them achieve their...

Jenni Valley
Jenni is a fitness buff who is passionate about getting her patients back to the lives and activities they enjoyed before aging or injury brought them to Paramount. She joined...

Taylor Hausbeck
Taylor works at Paramount while she attends college studying to be an Occupational Therapist. She joined Paramount in September 2015, after completing the PT/OT and Sports...

Amber Storey
Amber doesn’t have a lot of contact with patients, but she is your resource if you have a question about your insurance or a bill. She came to Paramount in 2013 and enjoys the...

Tiffany Serafin
Tiffany joined Paramount in 2015. She graduated from Central Michigan University with her Bachelors of Communication Disorder in 2004. In 2007, she graduated from California...

Paige Rybak
Paige started at Paramount in 2019 as the Bay City front desk receptionist. She worked as a certified nursing assistant for 5.5 years at a long term care facility prior to...

Samantha Seelye
Prior to joining Paramount in 2019, Samantha worked at MidMichigan Hospital inpatient clinic and St. Mary’s Hopsital outpatient clinic. Samantha’s favorite thing about being a...

Beth Cowart
Beth joined Paramount in 2019. Prior to working at Paramount, she worked as a BCBA for 3 years, ABA tech for 1.5 years and a special education teacher for 7 years. She loves...

Karin Williamsen
Karin first joined Paramount in 2010 right after she graduated. She left to seek out new experiences and has once again found her home at Paramount in 2019. Karin has been a...

Julie Ricard
Julie Ricard has her Bachelor in Science of Occupational Therapy. She graduated from Western Michigan University in 1984. Prior to joining Paramount in 2019, Julie worked in...

Jessica King
Jessica joined Paramount in 2019. She has worked 5 years mostly in the outpatient setting as a PTA. Along with her PTA degree, Jessica has a Bachelors of Science in Biology...

Barbara Zaleski
Barbara joined Paramount in 2019. She earned her PTA degree from Baker College in Auburn Hills. She worked in the pediatric field for two years working with kids with...

Emily Buchanan
Prior to joining Paramount in 2020, Emily worked at Mid-Michigan for 15 years working with orthopedic patients in the outpatient setting. Emily graduated from Delta College...

Tiana Storey
Tiana joined Paramount in 2020. She graduated from Delta College with an Associate degree in Science. In her free time, she enjoys painting and listening to nearly every genre...

Abbie Schmidt
Abbie joined Paramount in 2020. She has her Associate degree in corrections and is currently working toward her Bachelors degree through Ferris State. She has previously...

Ashton Storey
Ashton joined the Paramount team in 2020 as our Co-Op student. He previously worked at another PT clinic in the area and is interested in physical therapy as a potential...

Tiniyja Burney
Tiniyja joined the Paramount team in 2020. She graduated from CMU in 2018 with her Bachelors in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She earned her Masters degree in 2020...

Jodie Wendling
Jodie joined Paramount in 2020. She has her Associate and Bachelor’s degree in accounting. She was drawn to the medical field as she has spent several years at speech and...

Brittany Eile
Brittany started at Paramount in 2020. she previously worked at a doctors office doing reception and medical records. She loves seeing patients progress and she can relate to...

Krista Austin
Krista Austin, Front Desk Receptionist Krista started at Paramount in 2020. She has 8 years of experience in the medical field and has worked within various settings. She...

Barbara Hall
Barbara joined Paramount in 2020. She has been a PTA for 39 years and spent 35 of those years with pediatrics in the school setting. She loved seeing the children achieve...

Jessica Pityer
Jessica joined Paramount in 2021. She has experience working in the schools up north with pre-K- middle school students. Jessica always thought the speech therapist she had in...

Kari Wendling
Kari WendlingDirector of Autism Services MSW, LMSW, BCBA, LBAKarstin (Kari) joined Paramount in 2021. Kari has a Bachelors from Central Michigan University in Child Development,...

Cori Little
Cori joined Paramount in 2021. She has been employed at Mary Free Bed at Covenant for over a year. She completed her following fieldwork placements at the following practice...

Hollie Lietz
Scott, who joined Paramount in 2015, is a fitness buff who loves that his job lets him help others return to an active lifestyle. In addition to his degree as a Physical...

Erika Terrill
Brittany started at Paramount in 2020. she previously worked at a doctors office doing reception and medical records. She loves seeing patients progress and she can relate to...