Karl Entenmann
CPO ’81

About Karl Entenmann

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Job title: Orthotist Prosthetist

Degrees: BS ’81 (prosthetics & orthotics)

Career stage: retired

State of practice: Tacoma, WA

Current practice settings: Private practice

Lived career experiences/transitions:

  • Starting a private practice
  • Retiring from practice
  • Work/Life balance

Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 1981

Residency: Orthomedics, San Jose, CA

Specialty/subspecialty: Orthotics and Prosthetics

Karl’s Bio: Graduated in P&O in 1981, worked at Orthomedics until 1984. Joined Northwest Prosthetics in Tacoma in 1984 and worked as a clinician there until 1995. Started Preferred Orthotic and Prosthetic Services in 1995 and owned and worked there until selling the practice in 2018 to Evergreen Prosthetics and Orthotics. Worked part time for Evergreen until May 2025. I am now fully retired except for occasionally helping in training of new residents in areas of my expertise.

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