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Occupational Therapy News - 2010

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First Year Students Do CarFit and Make The Daily Reflector's Front Page!

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Occupational therapy graduate students are joined by DJ Maxy (on right),
minister of Eastern Pines Church of Christ and member, Rick Dickerson (on left).

On May 22, 2010 first year occupational therapy students and members of the Eastern Pines Church of Christ joined together to offer a CarFit event for the city of Greenville.  The event brought both television mediapersons and the area's newspaper reporter to cover the event.  The story made the front page on Monday's edition and a story was carried on the local WITN news channel on Saturday night. 

The event was a great collaboration of Eastern Pines Church of Christ and the Department of Occupational Therapy. The members of the church want to support these kinds of community events and offered a safe and great location for a CarFit event.  For the students, it provided a supportive learning environment to be trained as an CarFit technician.  When they graduate as occupational therapists, it is hoped that they will continue to plan CarFit events in their home area.

For more information on CarFit, please use this website: http://www.car-fit.org/

For a copy of the Daily Reflector story, click here:

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Carolina Fountain and Leslie Wagner check out a driver at the CarFit event.

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Courtney Smith completes the 12-point checklist on
another participant.

 

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Dr. Trujillo receives Fellow Award! 

Dr. Leonard Trujillo was honored at the 2010 American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference's Award Ceremony on May 1, 2010.  Dr.  Trujillo received a fellow award, which is only given to a small percentage of occupational therapists each year by the awards committee.  The Fellow award recognizes therapists who make significant contributions to the profession.  Dr. Trujillo's received it for Professionalism in Research and Education.  He joins Dr. Painter and Dr. Dickerson in receiving this prestigious recognition.  

 

Research Symposium of the Occupational Therapy Department

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                                               Poster Session Time

Friday, April 23, 2010 was the date of another successful Occupational Therapy Research Symposium, Linking Research to Practice!   The new setting was the Heart Institute, but there were a greater number of participants and celebrations.  There were eight paper presentations by graduate occupational therapy students and two posters sessions in which participants interacted with eight graduate posters.  Many members of the audience commented on the quality of the students' work. 

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                               The Class of 2010 during the Symposium

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                                            Dr. Leonard Trujillo and Dr. Jacyln Low

Dr. Jaclyn Low was the keynote speaker with a presentation on Narrative studies: Methods for Enhancing Research, Practice, and Your Social Life.  She also addressed leadership ethics at a later session.  Jackie was a colleague of Leonard Trujillo when he worked at Texas Women's University, so it was a nice reunion for both.  Please go to the following website to review the presentations and posters offered at this year's annual event: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/ot/mastersprojects.cfm 

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                                                 A fun picture of the Class of 2010!

 

At the 2010 North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis conference in Winston-Salem on February 17, 2010, a poster describing the collaborative work of Rebecca LsChapelle (a 2009 graduate), Dr. Beth Velde, Skip O'Neal (1992 and 2004 alumni), and June Schafford won Best Professional Paper presentation award.  The study titled Use of a Pressure Vest to Reduce the Physiological Arousal of a Person with Profound Intellectual and Physical Disabilities During Routine Fingernail Care was a result of a collaboration between the the Occupational Therapy Departments at East Carolina University and Caswell Developmental Center.

 

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Jane Painter Teams with Page Riggs to Become Master Clinical Trainer

Dr. Jane Painter, and Page Riggs, OTR/L, ECU Alumni and Supervisor of the Brain Injury and Neuro-Rehabilitation Programs at Pitt County Memorial Hospital University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina attended the master training course of the American Occupational Therapy Association's Fieldwork Educators Certificate program in Bethesda, MD.  Jane and Page will be one of the only five master trainer teams in the Southeast!  They will be offering a two-day AOTA certificate program for occupational fieldwork educators and academic fieldwork coordinators to advance their fieldwork education skills through four curricular modules:  administration, education, supervision, and evaluation.  ECU and eastern North Carolina is fortunate to be one of the front-runners of clinical training in Occupational Therapy!