Meet Our Team

Progressive Rehabilitation Medicine has a team of highly qualified medical professionals and support staff who work together to meet our patients’ needs and provide excellent care.

Michelle Heidt

Office Manager

Michelle has worked in healthcare for over 16 years and has been the Office Manager for Progressive Rehabilitation Medicine since 2008. She was born and raised in Cedar Rapids.

Michelle is certified in non-surgical spinal decompression and laser therapies and is very passionate about her career. She loves helping people and the most rewarding part about working with patients is the outcome they experience at the clinic. She enjoys spending each day making a difference in the lives of others, whether it is greeting them, helping assist them with a treatment, or working behind the scenes making sure the facility is run smoothly. Each day is rewarding.

Michelle is a mother of 3, and she loves to watch each of them with their life adventures and spending time with family and friends. She loves to be outside in the summer months spending time in the sun.

Sara, R.EEG.T

Registered EEG Technologist

Sara grew up in Iowa City, graduating from Iowa City, City High in 2002. She then went on to study Electroneurodiagnostics through Kirkwood community college and UIHC.  Sara has spent her last 10 years living in Cedar Rapids working as a neurodiagnostics tech in the Cedar Rapids area.

In her home life, she enjoys spending her free time outdoors playing at the dog park, camping or kayaking. She also enjoys spending time with her husband Patrick and 2 boxers Zeus & Odin.

Benjamin, LAT, ATC

Certified/Licensed Athletic Trainer

Ben grew up and attended school in California where he attained his Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training, He practiced sports medicine in the collegiate and secondary school settings for 5 years before he moved to Iowa in 2017.  Since making the “best move of his life” he has worked for Mercy Medical and PCI to provide Athletic Training coverage around Cedar Rapids.  Now he is happy to work in the clinical setting to provide a dynamic structure to therapy at Progressive Rehabilitation Medicine. Ben’s daily goal is always to try to make patients leave rehabilitation feeling better than when they arrived.

Other than helping patients; Ben enjoys spending time with his wife, doing church activities, hopes to start a family soon, and likes playing video games in his free time.

Angela, CMA

Certified Medical Assistant

Angela has worked in healthcare for over 30 years. Ten of those years spent serving the community as a firefighter and paramedic. She joined Progressive Rehabilitation Medicine in 2024. She is originally from Central City, Iowa and has lived in the Cedar Rapids area for the past 20 years.

Angela decided to “switched things up and slow down a bit” and left the firefighting and paramedic scene to become a CMA and has been a certified medical assistant since 2012. She loves helping people and finds the most rewarding part about working with patients is getting to know them on a more personal level and watching them progress through their treatment and seeing the improvements they experience at the clinic.

Angela is a mother of 5, and grandmother of 10. She enjoys watching her family thrive and seeing them achieve their life goals. In her spare time, she likes to hit the trails on her bicycle and spend time with her family and friends.