Paul M Deutsch & Associates, P.A. Professional Staff

Paul M. Deutsch

Julie A. Kitchen

Kay R. Brown

Andrea Zotovas

Sara N. Cimino-Ferguson

Additional Staff

Paul M. Deutsch, Ph.D., CRC, CCM, CLCP, FIALCP

Paul M. Deutsch Ph.D., CRC, CCM, CLCP, FIALCP is a licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Life Care Planner, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Certified Case Manager and a Fellow of the International Academy of Life Care Planners. He is president of the Foundation for Life Care Planning Research and courtesy faculty at the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling at the University of Florida. He is a Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is one of five founders of the first national training program leading to life care planning certification and is lead developer of the Life Care Planning Program at Kaplan Universities' Health Care Pathways Program. He has authored eleven volumes on life care planning and the medical, psychological and rehabilitation outcomes of each of the injuries listed in the American Medical Association's Guide to Permanent Impairments. Additionally, he has authored and co-authored over eighty chapters and peer reviewed journal articles on Life Care Planning and disability. He has practiced in the field of rehabilitation counseling and Life Care Planning for thirty-two years. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Life Care Planning and the Journal of Forensic Vocational Analysis. Dr. Deutsch has been writing, lecturing and researching the topic of Life Care Planning since the mid 1970’s. He along with his co-authors and many other leading Life Care Planners, has formed the Foundation for Life Care Planning to initiate and support research on reliability and validity in the Life Care Planning process. In addition to leading the development of the Kaplan University Life Care Planning curriculum he has lead the development of their Case Management and Elder Care Management Curriculum. He teaches in Kaplan's Life Care Planning Program as well as in the University of Florida/MediPro Certificate Program in Life Care Planning.

Dr. Deutsch is the recipient of the 1993 International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals Rehabilitation Educator of the Year Award.

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Julie A. Kitchen, CDMS, CCM, CLCP
Certified Life Care Planner

Julie Kitchen has been involved in the research and preparation of Life Care Plans for Catastrophic Injuries for over 25 years, in association with Paul M. Deutsch & Associates, P.A., in Oviedo, FL. She and Paul M. Deutsch actually developed the Life Care Planning Process and Methodology, as it is known today, in the late 1970’s, early 1980’s and initially published on the concept of Life Care Planning, Process and Methodology. Ms. Kitchen has authored chapters in A Guide to Rehabilitation, (AHAB Press) Damages in Tort Actions. (Matthew Bender, 1982-1989), The Case Management Handbook, (CRC Press), and Health Care and Disability Case Management, (Vocational Consultants’ Press, 1998). She has also co-authored a number of monographs including: Life Care Planning, Step-by-Step Guides for (1) The Brain Damaged Infant; (2) The Spinal Cord Injured; (3) The Head Injured; and 4) The Ventilator Dependent Patient, and articles published in “Seminars in Hearing”, Thieme Medical Publishers; “Life Care Planning: A Comparison of Private Hire and Agency Costs” and “Agency Response to Private Hire”, NARPPS Journal, 1997. Ms. Kitchen has been teaching the Life Care Planning Process and Methodology since 1987. (View Curriculum Vitae)

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Kay R. Brown, CLCP
Certified Life Care Planner

Kay R. Brown began working with Paul M. Deutsch & Associates, P.A., in June of 1992. She has thirteen years of experience in the research and preparation of life care plans detailing anticipated costs of care services for catastrophically injured individuals. Additionally, she is experienced in the assessment of vocational handicaps and their impact on vocational development and wage earning capacity related to an individual’s pre and post accident earning capacity. Mrs. Brown completed the post-graduate course study of Life Care Planning for Advanced Catastrophic Case Management in 1995 through the Rehabilitation Training Institute and the University of Florida, Department of Rehabilitation Counseling. She became a Certified Life Care Planner in 1996. She authored a chapter on Organ Transplantation in A Guide to Rehabilitation, (AHAB Press). (View Curriculum Vitae)

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Andrea Zotovas, MD

Dr. Zotovas is a board certified physician specializing in the area of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is a consulting physiatrist with Paul M. Deutsch & Associates, P.A. and, in addition to these responsibilities, Dr. Zotovas provides inpatient acute and subacute rehabilitation, and conducts inpatient and outpatient EMG/NCV studies. Dr. Zotovas earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College and her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. In 1990, she joined the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago, IL. Dr. Zotovas has extensive experience in group and private practice settings and is currently licensed in states of Florida and Illinois. (View Curriculum Vitae)

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Sara N. Cimino-Ferguson, MS, CRC

Sara N. Cimino-Ferguson earned a Master of Science degree in Rehabilitation Counseling in 2004 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology in 2002 from the University of Florida. Mrs. Cimino-Ferguson currently lives in Grand Junction, CO where she is pursuing certification as a Life Care Planner. Her past experiences include case management at Shands Rehab and Shands Cancer Center and client advocacy at Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse Network. She has also worked as a Wish Granter with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and has basic communication skills with American Sign Language. Her primary interests include: ethics, quality of life issues, and case management. (View Curriculum Vitae)

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