Latest Chan Division News
Occupational Therapy featured on NPR: “Wanted: Men for Occupational Therapy Jobs” ⟩
January 29, 2010
"Unemployed males looking for a new career path could turn to occupational therapy. It's one of the many health-related jobs growing during the economic down turn. It's also a field traditionally dominated by women. Females make up 90 percent of workers and men 10 percent, and recruiting males into…
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USC Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy Students in the Newspaper ⟩
November 24, 2009
Chan in the Media Community and Partners Students
The ENGAGE Program and Sunshine Mission Thanksgiving Dinner hosted by the Division were recently covered by USC Student Affairs and the Daily Trojan. Read more at Students Help Provide Dinner at Shelter.
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Congratulations to our fellow division: PT gets first endowed chair! ⟩
October 28, 2009
Dr. Jim Gordon, Associate Dean and Chair, announced that a $1 million gift from Tracy Sykes (DPT class of 1998) and her husband Gene Sykes has established the first endowed faculty chair for the Division of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy. Dr. Linda Fetters has been named the inaugural holder…
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$1.25 million Autism Grant ⟩
October 22, 2009
Autism Awards Faculty Research
Olga Solomon PhD, Research Assistant Professor, received a NIH grant for $1.25 million to study Autism in an urban context. This two year multi-method, ethnographic research project examines health and service disparities in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis of African American children…
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Florence Clark AOTA President-Elect! ⟩
April 24, 2009
Associations and Bodies Faculty
Florence Clark PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Associate Dean and Professor of the Division of OS/OT, has been elected President-Elect of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). AOTA and the occupational therapy profession will undoubtedly benefit from her service in this role, and later on as…
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New Pressure Ulcer Prevention Study Grant ⟩
November 24, 2008
Awards Faculty Lifestyle Redesign Research
USC OS/OT is awarded a grant to study Lifestyle Redesign® intervention for people with spinal cord injury. As discovered by a team of researchers led by USC OS/OT in a 3-year, NIDRR-funded qualitative study, "Daily Living Context and Pressure Sores in Consumers with SCI," the ordinary daily…
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The Division Awarded OSEP Early Intervention Grant ⟩
November 24, 2008
Awards Clinical Community and Partners Research Students
A new grant in the amount of $800,000 has been awarded to researchers in the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), an agency of the U.S. Department of Education. The grant, which will run from 2008 to 2013, is titled…
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