Janice P. Burke, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

•  Healthy Aging


•  Tailored activities for people with
    Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

•  Verbal and non-verbal behaviors in
    occupational therapy interactions

•  Children with sensory integrative
    dysfunction

•  Child and family studies, focused on
    quality of services for families and their
    children with special needs (See website
    for more information).

http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/cfsrp/

Laura N. Gitlin, PhD

•  Family caregiving

•  Environmental modification and
    adaptations to disability

•  Home-based interventions to improve
    functional status of older adults

•  Quality of life in persons with dementia

Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health

E. Adel Herge, OTD, OTR/L

•  Health promotion for adults with
    developmental disabilities

 Lifestyle re-design program for adults with developmental disabilities

Caryn Johnson, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

•  Fieldwork Educator Attitudes

•  Professional behavior development in
    students

•  Historic development of fieldwork

Fieldwork Educator Attitudes Toward Active Participation in Level I Occupational Therapy Students

Stephen B. Kern, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

•  Participatory action research, health
    promotion

•  Social competence and occupational
    choice with children from low-income
    urban environments 

•  Spinal cord injury

•  Development of a health promoting
    lifestyle redesign patient education
    program for individuals with heart
    failure

•  Senior independence and health
    promotion at Philadelphia senior
    center

•  Development of an Upper Extremity
    Assessment for Persons with Spinal
    Cord Injury

Arlene Lorch, OTD, OTR/L, CHES

•  OT's role in extending function and quality
    of life in the older adult

Kathleen Swenson Miller, PhD, OTR/L

•  Management of chronic health conditions
    in underserved populations

•  Using the internet as an adjunct to care

•  Health literacy

•  Building a meaningful life when disabled
    and homeless

•  E-health promotion for underserved
    populations Putting evidence-based
    processes into the daily practice
    patterns of rehabilitation therapists

•  Exploring health literacy
    interventions for populations with
    chronic health conditions and a
    disability.

•  Life skills/work transition skills for
    homeless and formerly homeless
    individuals

Roseann C. Schaaf, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

•  Sensory reactivity in children with autism

•  Neural and behavioral markers of sensory
    processing

•  Neuroplasticity and occupation

•  Neural and behavioral markers of
   atypical sensory processing in
   children with autism

•  Sensory processing and leisure activity choices in young adults

Susan Toth-Cohen, PhD, OTR/L

• Virtual reality teaching (academic and
   public health)

•  Evidence based practice

•  Cultural aspects of illness, disability, and
    healthcare

•  Family caregivers

•  Spirituality in OT practice

•  Second Life: Possibilities for
    graduate education and public health
    in a virtual environment

•  Putting evidence based processes
    into the daily practice patterns of
    rehabilitation therapists

• In-Touch: Mind, Body, and Spirit
   (Research Preceptor)

•  Experiences of occupational
    therapists incorporating clients’
    religious and spiritual concerns in
    physical disabilities practice 

Shelley Wallock, DrPH, OTR/L

•  Inclusion

•  Transitions into the community

•  Ethics in allied healthcare research

•  Use of non-competitive games in learning
    for pre-schoolers

•  Cuba service learning program

•  St. Elizabeth's /Honickman learning
    center afterschool program