Announcements

Prestigious E.K. Wise Scholarship awarded to GW eOTD student for the pursuit of leadership, service, and diversity.

Sarah Doerrer PhD, OTR/L, CHT, CLT, will serve as an assistant professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in the Occupational Therapy program, following three years as Adjunct Professor.

Kellie Sawyer, a current Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Doctorate student, recently submitted a proposal that was accepted as a short course for the 2020 North Carolina OT Association Fall Conference.

To combine items from the Functional Independence Measure TM (FIM TM), Minimum Data Set 2.0 (MDS), and the Outcome and Assessment Information Set-B (OASIS) to reliably measure cognition across post-acute care settings and facilitate future studies of patient cognitive recovery.

The Early Career Networking Group is pleased to honor Trudy Mallinson, PhD, OTR/L, FACRM, FAOTA with the ACRM Early Career Outstanding Mentor Award.

Question Is there an association between therapy minutes per day and mobility and self-care outcomes for patients receiving rehabilitation services in postacute care facilities after undergoing hip fracture surgery?

Jennifer Weaver & Trudy Mallinson recently co-authored a letter to the editor published in the Journal of Head Trauma & Rehabilitation updating the indices of responsiveness for the Disorders of Consciousness Scale-25.