OT Department well represented at American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference

Several faculty members and 36 students from the Department of Occupational Therapy (OT) attended the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference (AOTA) in Baltimore, Maryland, April 3-6, 2014.  Jane O’Brien, Ph.D., OTR/L, associate professor and OT director, received the AOTA Roster of Fellows award at the awards ceremony for “creative and innovative teaching, scholarship, and service.”

O’Brien and Scott McNeil, OTD, MS, OTR/L, assistant clinical professor, presented a research paper, “Teaching effectiveness: Preparing occupational therapy students for clinical practice,” which has been published in the Open Journal of Occupational Therapy.

 

 

OT students Josie Balazs (MS OT ’15) and Michael Whitty (MS OT ’14) represented UNE at the Association for Student Delegates and participated in pre-conference events.

Seven poster sessions at the conference involved UNE students, alumni and faculty.  Faculty members who presented include O’Brien; Professor Regi Robnett, Ph.D., OTR/L; Assistant Clinical Professor Mary Elizabeth Patnaude, MS, OTR/L; Assistant clinical professor Kate Loukas, OTD, MS, OTR.L, FAOTA;  and Associate Professor Jan Froehlich, MS, OTR/L.

Poster presentations:

  • Bolduc, J. & Robnett, R. (April 4, 2014). Usefulness of the ManageMed Screen and the S-5 for assessing medication management capacity for clients post stroke.
  • Hanebrink, S., & Patnaude, MB (April 4, 2014). Make history: Become part of the international symbol for access movement.
  • Kulesz, K., Loukas (April  5, 2014) The lived experience of physical disability: Challenge and triumph.
  • Loukas, K., Lyons, E., Pascarella, M., & Shields, P. (April 4, 2014).  Neuro-occupation: Reflection and research on remarkable recovery.
  • O’Brien, J. , Bowyer, P., & Kramer, J. (April 3, 2014). Applying the Model of Human Occupation in pediatric  practice
  • O’Brien, J., Crossley-Marra, L., DeLuca, K., Kaminski, T., Peters, B., Schena, C. , Shea, M., & Froehlich, J. (April 5, 2014). Using the Child Occupational Self-Assessment in Pediatric Occupational Therapy Practice.
  • Travnik, A. (April 5, 2014). A non-linear day of neuro-occupation and autism.

On the evening of Friday, April 4th, President Danielle Ripich and Westbrook College of Health Professions Dean Elizabeth Francis-Connolly, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA, welcomed over 50 students, alumni, faculty and friends to an alumni event at the Baltimore Hilton to celebrate UNE’s OT community and O’Brien’s Roster of Fellows award.

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