Occupational Therapy (OT)
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Occupational Therapy’s Golden Toilet Award goes too…
For the fourth year in a row, the UAB Department of Occupational Therapy handed out one of their most prized possessions – the infamous Golden Toilet Award. And the award goes too...
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Harold Jones to step down after 17 years as dean of Health Professions
Harold Jones, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health Professions, has announced that he will be stepping down from his role as dean, pending arrival of his successor. Jones became dean of what then was known as the School of Health-Related Professions in April 2001, when it had a total of approximately 800 students. Today, it has more than 2,200 students.
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Jenkins named chair of Occupational Therapy
Gavin Jenkins, Ph.D., has been named chair of the UAB Department of Occupational Therapy. Jenkins, whose research interests include assistive technology, pedagogical affect, learning performance, and the influence of green spaces and built environment on occupational participation, has worked and researched in the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Read moreOT’s Valley McCurry wins ALOTA Cosby Award
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UAB OT students learn therapy tricks from illusionist Kevin Spencer
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A day ahead of performing his “Theatre of Illusion” at the UAB Alys Stephens Center, he delivered a performance in front of a crowd of only 50, but it was a performance that has the potential to impact tens of thousands of people around the world. Read more
UAB / Lakeshore Research Collaborative awarded $5.8M for MS research
James Rimmer, Ph.D.The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors has approved a $5.8 million grant over the next four years to the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions’ James Rimmer, Ph.D., to fund a study to determine whether people with multiple sclerosis get as much benefit from an exercise-based rehabilitation program delivered via internet and telephone as they do when the therapy is provided in a clinic.
OT students’ research on play space inequities between affluent and non-affluent communities published
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Adrianne Smiley is 1st UAB OT student accepted to AOTA Emerging Leaders program
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Low Vision’s Barstow earns AOTA Fellow honors
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OT students’ restroom sign designs win inaugural Golden Toilet Award
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Rimmer honored by AAP for best paper of 2013
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OT class builds chairs for children in Uganda using cardboard, paper, flour and water
So when co-instructors Deek Cunningham, MS, OTR/L, and Gavin Jenkins, Ph.D., OTR/L, both assistant professors in the OT department, asked the class to build chairs – using only cardboard, paper, flour and water – as assistive devices. You can imagine what went through the students’ heads. Read more
OT class given $5, 5 minutes to make a difference in world
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