Keep It Dry is a collaboration of orthopedic surgeons, medical industry professionals, extreme whitewater kayakers and expert watersport gear designers. Our medical team brings more than 40 years of patient care experience, while our design team has been keeping the world’s most daring watersports adventurers warm and dry for almost 20 years.

At Keep It Dry, we understand that a happy patient is a healthy patient, and it is our goal to keep you dry and happy during your recovery. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us. We look forward to helping you.

Roger Loughney
President/Co-Founder

Roger more or less put all of the pieces together to make Keep It Dry. A fateful meeting in Dr Dean’s office, with a passing comment regarding the need for a waterproof cast cover, combined with 8 years working for John and Kara in the whitewater paddlesports industry at Immersion Research, led to the creation of Keep It Dry. Roger currently works in Pittsburgh as an orthopedic sales representative

Dean G. Sotereanos, MD
Co-Founder

Dr. Dean graduated from the Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed a residency in orthopaedic surgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and a fellowship in hand and microvascular surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. He specializes in hand and upper extremity surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Nicholas G. Sotereanos, MD
Co-Founder

Dr. Nick graduated from the Allegheny University of the Health Sciences in Philadelphia, PA. He completed a residency in orthopaedic surgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and a fellowship in adult total joint reconstructive surgery at the Anderson Orthopedic Clinic in Arlington, VA . He currently specializes in adult total joint reconstruction surgery at the Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, PA

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Kara Weld
VP/Co-Founder

Kara grew up in the small town of Confluence, PA kayaking on the Youghiogheny River. She competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s in whitewater slalom on US National Canoe and Kayak Team where she won a bronze medal in the K-1 team event at the 1991 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Tacen, Slovenia. In 1997, she and John Weld started a whitewater gear manufacturing business, Immersion Research, whose technology and design expertise Keep It Dry is based on.