NYIT: Department of Occupational Therapy

Education:
B.S. Columbia University, School of Occupational Therapy.
M.A. New York University, School of Education, Occupational Therapy.
Doctoral Candidate in Human Relations, New York University.

Professional Credentials:
Occupational Therapist, Registered. Certified by National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapists: #083840; New York State Occupational Therapy License: #00050.

Academic Appointments:
1996-present Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Occupational Therapy.
1972-1996      Adjunct Associate Professor:LaGuardia Community College.
1978-1980      New York School for Psychiatry. Instruction clinical supervision.
1972-1973      Coordinator of Occupational Therapy, York College.
1970-1973      Director of Paraprofessional Training, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
1968-1970      Associate in Occupational Therapy, Columbia University.
1965-1968      Instructor, State University of New York at Farmingdale.

Selected Clinical Appointments
1991-1996      Director of Occupational Therapy.North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove.
1974-1990      Chief of Service, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
1963-1974      Director & Senior Occupational Therapist, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center

Research Interests: Elderly spousal caregiving; aging in place; use of music and storytelling in occupational therapy

Current Professional Associations:
American Occupational Therapy Association
American Public Health Association
New York State Occupational Therapy Association, Long Island District
World Federation of Occupational Therapy

Grants: Fieldwork: The impact of on-site and off-site supervision on perceived competence by occupational therapy students. (Initial funding by an AAUP grant 1997-1998). Co-authors: Lisa Gordon, Tamara Avi-Itzhak.

Selected Publications, Workshops and Presentations
Identifying the Informal Geriatric Caring Community as a Cultural Aggregate: Sociopolitical Implications. Co-author: Linda Soroff, Ph.D. Poster Session at the Third International Conference on Family Care. (Juried). October 12-14, 2002. Washington, DC.

Diversity. A Transcultural Nursing Educational Environment. An Imperative for Multicultural Students, Co-authors: Linda Soroff, Ellen Rich, Arlene Rubin, Rita Strickland. Nurse Educator. 27, 4. July/August, 2002. (Juried).

Leininger’s Culture Care Theory as a Theoretical Framework: Its Use in the construction of Assessment Tools for Evaluation of Kinship Caregivers against the Burden of Care, presented on June 13, 2002 at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University third annual meeting of the Ethnogerontology Institute on Aging (Juried). Co-Author: Linda Soroff, Ph.D.

Plagiarism in Allied Health Education: A Quantitative Study. Co-authors: Elizabeth Chiariello, Sheena Sethi. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association. (Juried) May 2-5, 2002. Miami Beach.

The Use of Technical Standards in Occupational Therapy Educational Programs. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association, April 2001. (Juried).

Bread and roses. The use of creative arts in occupational therapy fieldwork. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Occupational Therapy Association, April 1999 (with Lisa F. Gordon, M.A., OTR/L) (Juried).

The matchmaker. A computerized matching program for fieldwork placement. Poster session at the Annual Meeting of the American Occupational Therapy Association. April 1998, 1999 and April 2000. (with Lisa F. Gordon and K. Santwani). (Juried).

Proposal to the New York State Education Department for Two New Graduate Programs in Occupational Therapy at NYIT . 1999.

Assisted Professor Lisa Gordon in the writing and publication of The Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Manual. 1997, revised summer 2000.

Self-study of the New York Institute of Technology Occupational Therapy Program. These 400-page documents were approved by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association, and are the final step prior to site visits of the ACOTE evaluators, 1998; 2003.

Memoir: Frieda J. Behlen. Founding Chair of the Program in Occupational Therapy . Invitational presentation ar New York University, June 1998.

Prepared the report on the results of a pilot study conducted by a task force on Perceived Roles of Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Students at the invitation of the Metropolitan Occupational Therapy Council of New York and New Jersey. (MOTEC). 1997.

Say it with Music: The Use of Music in Therapy by Non-Musicians . With Virginia Davidson, D. Mus. 2000.