Service and Special Projects

        International Programs

• Educational exchange with Kitasato University in Sagamihara, Japan. Students from Jefferson and Kitasato visit each other's university programs and exchange ideas, knowledge, and fun! Two OT students will be chosen in an application process, to travel to Japan in March 2008.
• Summer 2007 Visit to South Africa Dr. Roseann Schaaf and two graduate students meet OT leaders from South Africa when Dr. Schaaf presented at the 16th Congress of the South African Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions in Capetown.
  
• Educational exchange and service in Cuba, at the Center for Children with Neurological Disabilities, Cardenas, Cuba. See video of Cuban Pediatric settings.
  
  Service Projects
  
  
• Project HOME St. Elizabeth's Honickman learning center after school program
  • Stephen B. Kern, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA
  • Shelley Wallock, DrPH, OTR/L
    
    
• Programs for management of chronic health conditions in underserved populations
  • Kathleen Swenson Miller, PhD, OTR/L

          Service to the Occupational Therapy Profession

• Editorial Board, OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health
  
  • Roseann Schaaf, PhD,OTR/L, FAOTA
    

• Editorial Board, Occupational Therapy in Health Care
  
  • Susan Toth-Cohen, PhD, OTR/L
    
    
• Roster of Accreditation Evaluators for the American Occupational Therapy Association
  • Arlene Lorch, MS, OTR/L, CHES
    
    
• The Pennsylvania Model: Developing a continuing education program for occupational therapists who provide care to families and persons with dementia
  • Janice Burke, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA
  • Laura Gitlin, Ph.D.