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Neurorehabilitation Series - Self-Paced Clinical Courses
Core Concepts in Neurorehabilitation
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Gordon Muir Giles, PhD, DipCOT, OTR/L, FAOTA, received a graduate diploma from St. Andrew's School of Occupational Therapy and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. He was senior occupational therapist at the first program in the world specializing in the treatment of individuals with behavior disorders and brain injuries. He has opened and directed specialized acute medical hospitals and long-term-care, behavioral management, and outpatient programs for people with neurobehavioral impairments. He was responsible for opening the first county-funded neurobehavioral program for people with acquired neurological impairments in the Western United States in 1993.
Dr. Giles introduced the"neurofunctional approach" in 1993 and recently has been developing nonaversive approaches to rehabilitation of people with neurological impairments. He is an internationally known researcher and has authored numerous publications, including three books, on practical approaches to treating people with acquired neurological impairments. He currently is responsible for a 65-bed neurobehavioral program in Fremont and a 120-bed medical/psychology program in Sunnyvale. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, he is associate professor at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland.
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Fred Feuchter, PhD, received a doctorate in human anatomy from the University of Iowa School of Medicine. He has held faculty positions in anatomy at the University of Washington School of Medicine, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, and the University of California at Berkeley. He currently is professor of anatomy and interim chair in the Basic Sciences Department at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, where he teaches human anatomy and functional neurosciences. His research interests include development of computer interactive media for use in his courses and other training programs in the health sciences.
Linda L. Levy, MA, OTR/L, FAOTA, is associate professor of occupational therapy at Temple University, and faculty associate at the Geriatric Education Center of Pennsylvania. She has extensive clinical experience in adult psychosocial dysfunction, geropsychiatry, and geriatric rehabilitation, having directed occupational therapy programs at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center. She has published widely in the occupational therapy and rehabilitation literature and presented numerous workshops and seminars. She served as Heath Systems Agency regional planner for mental health, developmental disabilities, and long-term-care services for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and was one of 16 nationally designated experts appointed to the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Panel on Screening for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias by the Office of the Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in Health Care, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mary Jane Youngstrom, MS, OTR, FAOTA, is currently on the faculty of the Occupational Therapy Education Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. She received a BOT from the University of Kansas in 1968 and an MS in business management with a focus on health care from the University of South Florida in 1978. She was chair of the American Occupational Therapy Association's (AOTA's) Commission on Practice (COP) and member of AOTA's Executive Board from 1998 to 2002. During her term, the COP developed the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process. Her clinical interests have centered on providing services for older adults and the management and development of occupational therapy service programs; she has managed occupational therapy services in Missouri, Texas, and Florida. She also has held professional leadership and service positions at the local, state, and national levels.
Neurorehabilitation for Dementia-Related Diseases
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Mary A. Corcoran, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, is research professor in the Department of Health Care Sciences, George Washington University, and professor in the Division of Occupational Therapy, Shenandoah University. She has degrees in occupational therapy, social gerontology, and health planning for the elderly population. She has a long history as an author, researcher, and educator, having published and presented widely on topics such as environmental modifications, management of Alzheimer's disease, family caregiving, and collaboration. She has served as principal or co-principal investigator on several projects funded by the National Institute on Aging. Her experience includes use of qualitative and quantitative, as well as mixed, methodologies. Currently, she is editor of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy.
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Kathleen T. Foley, MS, OTR, is adjunct faculty member to the Department of Occupational Therapy at Indiana University-Indianapolis and staff therapist at Bloomington Hospital. Specializing in brain injury, she has more than 17 years of experience in adult rehabilitation. Her practice and future research interests include low vision, dysphagia, mobility systems/driving advisement, and professional education. She received a BS in occupational therapy from Quinnipiac University and an MS in instructional systems technology from Indiana University-Bloomington. She is a member of Pi Lambda Theta Honor Society and the American Occupational Therapy Association and is president-elect for the Indiana Occupational Therapy Association. She currently is working on her dissertation to complete the requirements for a PhD in higher education from Indiana University.
M. Tracy Morrison, OTD, OTR/L, is a faculty member and clinical scientist in the occupational therapy program at Washington University of Medicine in St. Louis. Prior to her appointment, she was awarded a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2003 to 2005. Her postdoctoral training was focused in neuroimaging and neurorecovery following brain injury. Prior to her fellowship, she was a research associate in the Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroimaging Laboratory at Washington University, during which she studied the neuropathology associated with Alzheimer's disease. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator over the Neuroperformance Laboratory in the Program in Occupational therapy at Washington University and her research focuses on the link between brain, behavior, performance, and participation. In addition, she serves on several university committees and has received numerous awards for scholarship.
Dory Sabata, OTD, OTR/L, recently joined the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Workplace Accommodations at the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, Georgia Institute of Technology. She previously was involved in research and training at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on aging in place and the role of home modifications in fall prevention. She earned an OTD in 2002 from Washington University in St. Louis and has an undergraduate degree in gerontology and psychology from Southwest Missouri State University. She has been a direct service provider for older adults and people with developmental disabilities. She presents at national and international conferences and has authored chapters and articles. Her research interests include environmental modifications, aging in place, cognition, and caregiving issues. She currently is the home modifications network manager for AOTA and serves on the AOTA Specialties Board Environmental Modification Specialty Certification Panel.
Patricia Schaber, PhD, OTR/L, is assistant professor in the Program in Occupational Therapy at the University of Minnesota. She holds a doctorate in family social science and a doctoral minor in gerontology with a focus in gerontological research. She was employed for 13 years in geriatric occupational therapy in long-term care, home health care, and activities programming. She completed a Bush fellowship for excellence in teaching and learning and a Minnesota Area Geriatric Education Center fellowship and has participated in the Consortium for Chronic Care with the Center on Aging at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests combine occupational therapy practice models with family theory in the development of family-centered approaches to care with the elderly population.
Erin R. Foster, OTD, currently is a postdoctoral fellow and principle investigator in the Movement Disorders Clinic and NeuroImaging Laboratories at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her postdoctoral training focuses on the cognitive performance issues of persons with Parkinson disease and related dementias, and her broader research interests concern the link between neural substrates/brain pathology and everyday performance and participation. She has studied and presented on a variety of neurological disorders and aging issues, served as research and teaching assistant from 2002 to 2005 and is a member of Pi Theta Epsilon. She completed her undergraduate and graduate training at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jennifer Marie Savre, OTD, is a recent doctoral graduate from the occupational therapy program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her doctoral work focused on productive aging. Her undergraduate study was at Montana State University in Bozeman in the department on Health and Human Development with focus on Exercise Physiology. She has received several awards, is a member of Pi Theta Epsilon, and has presented on stroke and other aging issues. She has been a research assistant, doctoral student researcher, teaching assistant and principal investigator from 2002 to 2005.
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Martin Rice, PhD, OTR/L, received a PhD in 1996 in motor learning and control from The Pennsylvania State University, an MS in 1987 in occupational therapy from the Western Michigan University, and a BS in 1984 in rehabilitation education from The Pennsylvania State University. His clinical experience includes adult rehabilitation in rehabilitation hospitals, long-term care facilities, and outpatient rehabilitation facilities. Although he has worked with a wide variety of patient populations, he has spent the majority of his clinical experience with clients with stroke and head injuries. He currently is associate professor at the Medical University of Ohio. His interests are in working with assistive technology as compensatory strategies for improving function and independence and in investigating motor learning and motor control strategies that promote enhanced learning and efficient movement performance with respect to therapeutic occupation.
Neurorehabilitation for Stroke
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Margaret Newsham Beckley, PhD, OTR/L, BCN, BCG, received a BHS in occupational therapy from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a MEd in adult and higher education from the University of Missouri - St. Louis. She completed a MHS in health care services and a PhD in social work with a concentration in rehabilitation outcomes, from Washington University in St. Louis. Her clinical and research interests include neurorehabilitation outcomes and community participation following impairment or disability. She received board certification in neurorehabilitation occupational therapy (BCN) from the American Occupational Therapy Association in 1996 and board certification in geriatric occupational therapy (BCG) in 2001. At The Ohio State University, she teaches courses in task analysis, neuroscience, and sensorimotor conditions in the occupational therapy division. She also is adjunct assistant professor in the College of Optometry.
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Lorry Liotta Kleinfeld, EdD, OTR/L, BCP, received an associate degree in occupational therapy from Palm Beach Jr. College and a BS in occupational therapy from Florida International University. She completed an MS in neuroscience at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and an EdD in higher education administration, with a concentration in health care education, at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her clinical and research interests include use of neurophysiological treatment techniques to improve function and problem-based learning in occupational therapy education. She received board certification in pediatric occupational therapy (BCP) from the American Occupational Therapy Association in 1995. She currently teaches courses at Belmont University in Nashville, in neuroscience, instructional delivery, and assessment and treatment in pediatrics and is a core faculty member on an interdisciplinary neurodevelopmental training program at Vanderbilt University.
Sandra L. Rogers, PhD, OTR/L, a practicing occupational therapist since 1984, received a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and worked in pediatrics and neurorehabilitation before pursuing an MS in therapeutic science and a PhD in kinesiology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has 14 years of teaching experience, and before joining the faculty at Pacific University in 2003, she taught at The Ohio State University, Columbus. She currently teaches in the MOT program in neurorehabilitation, neuroscience fundamentals, research, and pediatrics. Her supported research efforts have been targeted to individuals with neurological injuries such as stroke, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury. She most recently conducted a 3-year study with individuals with Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases, looking at the neuroimmune and cognitive consequences of basal ganglia disorders.
Melinda Fritts Rybski, MS, OTR/L, received a BS in occupational therapy and an MS in allied medicine with a concentration in education and research from The Ohio State University (OSU). She is currently pursuing a PhD in quantitative research with an emphasis in evaluation and measurement in education at OSU. Her clinical and research interests are in neurological dysfunction, rehabilitation, adaptive technology, and adult learning in occupational therapy education. She has been an instructor at OSU for 17 years, teaching courses in assessment, kinesiology, physical dysfunction, and level I fieldwork. She wrote Kinesiology for Occupational Therapists in 2004.
Susen Varghese, MSc, OTR/L, BCN, received a BS in occupational therapy from Seth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M. Hospital, at the University of Bombay, India. There she also received a Master of Science in occupational therapy with a concentration on neurological conditions and neurorehabilitation. She received board certification in neurorehabilitation occupational therapy (BCN) in 2000 from the American Occupational Therapy Association. She currently works at St. Mary's Rehab Care, Knoxville, Tennessee, in an acute inpatient rehabilitation unit, where she has been for more than 10 years, with most of her clients having neurological dysfunction.
Neurorehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury
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Kathleen Golisz, MA, OTR, BCN, is associate professor in the Graduate Program in Occupational Therapy at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York. She has more than 20 years of experience working as an occupational therapist with clients with neurological disabilities. Before joining the faculty at Mercy College, she was assistant director and clinical specialist in neurology in the Occupational Therapy Department at Helen Hayes Hospital. She has presented papers and workshops nationally and internationally at professional meetings on topics related to neurorehabilitation as well as driver rehabilitation. She has co-authored a chapter on evaluation of cognition and perception in the both the 9th and 10th editions of Willard & Spackman's Occupational Therapy. She is board certified in neurorehabilitation from the American Occupational Therapy Association and active in various community and professional associations, often in leadership roles.
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Robin McNeny, OTR, is manager of Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU's) In-patient Occupational Therapy and Therapeutic Recreation staff of the Medical Center. She has been with VCU Health System for more than 28 years, founding the in-patient Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program. She was active for many years as presenter and member of the Planning Committee of the annual interdisciplinary conference on brain injury rehabilitation. She has published and presented on topics related to brain injury rehabilitation, serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation and Neurorehabilitation and as manuscript reviewer for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is on the clinical faculty of VCU's Occupational Therapy Program and is adjunct faculty member in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Leslie Kane, MA, OTR/L, is manager of occupational therapy at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Previously, she worked for more than 13 years in the Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center, as clinical advisor and then therapy manager of the Inpatient Brain Injury Program. She also is instructor in clinical occupational therapy in Columbia University's Programs in Occupational Therapy. She has more than 20 years of experience in neurorehabilitation and has published and lectured on traumatic brain injury and stroke rehabilitation. In addition, she has earned an MA in motor learning from Teachers College/Columbia University.
Shawn C. Phipps, MS, OTR/L, is an Occupational Therapy Supervisor I at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, California. His clinical expertise as an occupational therapist is in the rehabilitation of clients with traumatic brain injury throughout the continuum of care. He also is an occupational therapy clinical instructor and lecturer at California State University Dominguez Hills. He serves on the board of directors for the Occupational Therapy Association of California and has met the advanced practice requirements in the State of California in the areas of hand therapy, use of physical agent modalities, and swallowing assessment, evaluation, or intervention.