{"id":15701,"date":"2023-11-03T14:42:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2023-11-15T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:18:26","slug":"elizabethtown-college-occupational-therapy-faculty-and-alumni-present-research-at-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/elizabethtown-college-occupational-therapy-faculty-and-alumni-present-research-at-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Occupational Therapy Faculty and Alumni Present Research at Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Occupational Therapy faculty and alumni recently presented research at the annual Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association (POTA) Conference in Pittsburgh<\/a> from September 29 through 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cConducting research with students is a wonderful way to mentor them into the scholarly process, and this eventually helps our profession,\u201d Elizabethtown College Associate Professor and Occupational Therapy BS\/MS Program Director, Debbie Waltermire said. \u201cThe mentoring of professional presentations is helpful for them to gain confidence in their skills with writing conference proposals and developing presentation skills.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(L-R): Veronica Martonik MSOT \u201923, Jillian Meitzler MSOT \u201923, Etown Occupational Therapy Lecturer Gina Fox, OTD, OTR\/L, BCPR, Jaime McNabb MSOT \u201923, and Taylor Allen MSOT \u201923.<\/p><\/div>\n

Etown Occupational Therapy Lecturer Gina Fox, OTD, OTR\/L, BCPR, Taylor Allen MSOT \u201923, Jaime McNabb MSOT \u201923, Jillian Meitzler MSOT \u201923, and Veronica Martonik MSOT \u201923 presented, \u201cExploring the Impact of Musculoskeletal Pain in Mothers.\u201d\u00a0 The group studied the prevalence and perceived impacts of musculoskeletal pain on a new mother\u2019s occupational performance, while also exploring future preventative education and intervention for musculoskeletal pain in mothers.<\/p>\n

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(L-R): Fox, Natalie Shearer MSOT \u201923, Morgan Gibau MSOT \u201923, Robin Hill MSOT \u201923, and Jillian Benedetti MSOT \u201923.<\/p><\/div>\n

Fox also presented with Jillian Benedetti MSOT \u201923, Morgan Gibau MSOT \u201923, Robin Hill MSOT \u201923, and Natalie Shearer MSOT \u201923 on \u201cThe Occupational Therapy Educational Splinting Tool: A Case Study.\u201d The group examined the occupational therapy educational splinting tool (OTEST), which is a decision tree designed to help new practitioners make clinical decisions after a client acquires brain injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth student groups did an amazing job presenting and fielding questions, and both presentations were well received by conference attendees,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Etown Associate Professor and Director for Post Professional Occupational Therapy Doctorate Kerri Hample, OTR\/L, NBV-HWC, co-presented, \u201cState Board of Education and Licensure: How to Lose your License to Practice,\u201d providing an overview of the legal aspects of licensure in occupational therapy.<\/p>\n

Current Occupational Therapy majors and members of Etown\u2019s Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA), Bella Mendez \u201924 and Elizabeth Petlick \u201925, attended the conference as part of the People Power Volunteer Program, sponsored by POTA. Two students from each higher education institution represented at the conference were selected for the program.<\/p>\n

Students in the program volunteered for one day of the conference, helping moderate research presentations, setting up and tearing down presentations and working the registration table. In exchange, they were able to attend the other day of the conference for free.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing Etown professors and students present at the conference inspired me to try and present in my future,\u201d Mendez said. \u201cMy OT classes have provided me with so many opportunities to apply foundational knowledge and get hands-on experience with my professors, classmates, and the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Occupational Therapy faculty and alumni recently presented research at the annual Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association (POTA) Conference in Pittsburgh from September 29 through 30. \u201cConducting research with students is a wonderful way to mentor them into the scholarly process, and this eventually helps our profession,\u201d Elizabethtown College Associate Professor and Occupational Therapy BS\/MS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":15704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,7],"tags":[197,2024,2026,1350,1517,2023,2029,294,2025,2027,329,784,2028],"class_list":["post-15701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus-community","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-elizabethtown-college-occupational-therapy","tag-elizabethtown-college-research","tag-etown","tag-etown-college","tag-etown-ot","tag-mentoring","tag-occupational-therapy","tag-occupational-therapy-research","tag-pennsylvania-occupational-therapy-association","tag-research","tag-signature-learning-experience","tag-student-occupational-therapy-association","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15765,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions\/15765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}