Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Contact
She / Her / Hers
Position:
Associate Dean of Student Affairs
901 Walnut Street 6th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
JCRS.Diversity@jefferson.edu
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Education & Training
Specialized Training Programs
- Professional Development Program For Sexual and Gender Minority Education and Training (SG-MET): SG-MET is an innovative, interdisciplinary professional development program specially designed to help academic, staff and healthcare providers better understand, educate and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community.
- SG-MET Community Partners: the Mazzoni Center and the William Way Center in Philadelphia
Publications & Articles
- Melissa C Hofmann, Nancy F Mulligan, Karla A Bell, Chris Condran, Hannah J Scarince, Eileen Gulik, Vivian He, Felix Hill, Erin Wolff, Gail Jensen, LGBTQIA+ Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy: An Exploratory Qualitative Study from the Clinician’s Perspective, Physical Therapy, 2024.
- Zapletal, A.L., Bell, K.A., Sanchez, A. et al. LGBTQ+ Inclusion: A Pilot Interdisciplinary Professional Development Program for Faculty, Clinicians, and Administrators in Higher Education. Innov High Educ (2023).·
- Nguyen M K, Anthony S P, Manganiello M P, Bell KA, Papanagnou D. (September 10, 2023) An Interactive Module to Enhance Clinical and Non-clinical Communication Skills With LGBTQIA2S+ Patients. Cureus 15(9): e44999.
- Karla A. Bell, PT, DPT, PhD(c), Department of Physical Therapy; Tracey Vause Earland, PhD, OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy; Audrey L. Zapletal, OTD, OTR/L, CLA, Department of Occupational Therapy; LGBTQ Curriculum Gap Leads to New Training Program for Jefferson Faculty and Staff
- Karla A. Bell, PT, DPT, PhD(c), Department of Physical Therapy; Ashley K. Poole, PT, DPT; Susan T. Hibbard, PhD; Dawn S. Brown, PT, DPT, EdD; Chris Condran, PT, DPT, EdD; Kyle Covington, PT, DPT, PhD; An Exploration of Doctor of Physical Therapy Students' Belongingness in Clinical Education: A Validation Study.
- Aster Harrison, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy; Disability studies and occupational therapy: Renewing the call for change
- Aster Harrison, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy; An online training to prepare occupational therapy students to work with clients with limited English proficiency and interpreters.
- Aster Harrison, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy; Working with clients with limited English proficiency: Mapping language access in occupational therapy.
- Karla A. Bell, PT, DPT, PhD(c), Department of Physical Therapy; Self-Reported Childhood Sexual Abuse and Other Adverse Childhood Experiences in an International Sample of Transgender and Gender-Questioning Adults
- Karla A. Bell, PT, DPT, PhD(c), Department of Physical Therapy; Susan E. Toth-Cohen, PhD, OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy; Tracey Vause Earland, PhD, OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy; Audrey L. Zapletal, OTD, OTR/L, CLA, Department of Occupational Therapy; Faculty Development as a Tool to Impact Culturally Competent Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities
Webinars & Lectures
- Adair M. Sánchez, OTD, OTR/L; Iris Wood Burns, MPH, OTD, OTR/L; Tina M. DeAngelis, EdD, MS, OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy; Maclain Capron, Outcomes and Measurement and the Occupational and Physical Therapy departments; Abigail Mills, MS, OTR/L; Taylor Kligerman, MSOT, OTR/L; Moving Forward Together: Reflections of a National Survey of OT/OTA Students’ Perceptions of Culturally Aware Educational Content Delivery
- Karla A. Bell, PT, DPT, PhD(c), Department of Physical Therapy; The Intersections of Sexual and Gender Diverse (SGD) Identities with the Social and Structural Determinants of Health and the Physical Therapy Core Values & Code of Ethics
Presentations
- Baird, J., Zapletal, A., Prast, J., Hoppe, M. & VanOss, T. (2023). Addressing microaggressions: Strategies, tools and techniques [Workshop]. American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference. Kansas City, MO: April 2023.
- Zapletal, A., Prast, J., Baird, J., Van Oss, T., & Hoppe, M. (2023). Difficult communication: Address challenges through simulation [Workshop]. International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. Orlando, FL: January 2023.
- Van Oss, T., Prast, J., Zapletal, A. (2022). Innovations in teaching: Using simulation to support learning about diversity, equity and inclusion [Poster]. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Kelowna, British Columbia: November 2022.
- Zapletal, A., Prast, J., Hoppe, M., Van Oss, T., Lange, R., & Baird, J. (2022). Social determinants of health: Using simulation to train occupational therapy students [Presentation]. American Occupational Therapy Association Education Summit. Orlando, FL: October 2022.