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New course bridges continents to discuss global perspectives on occupation and justice ⟩
April 25, 2019
Academics and Courses Community and Partners Faculty International Students
This spring semester, USC Chan master’s students had a new elective opportunity in their course options, one that connected them with new classmates halfway around the world.
OT 599 Special Topics, titled “Bridging Global Perspectives on Occupation and Justice,” was taught for the first time by USC Chan’s Associate Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy Rebecca Aldrich. Aldrich designed the new course specifically to be taught simultaneously with a partner…
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China Initiative Visits Beijing | November 2018 ⟩
April 12, 2019
China Initiative Community and Partners Conferences International Lectures and Talks Students
Purpose In November, the China Initiative team attended the 2nd Peking University International Conference on Medical Humanities: Narrating Birth, Ageing and Death at the Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC) in Beijing. At the conference, Dr. Julie McLaughlin Gray presented a keynote…
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China Initiative scholars at the halfway point of their USC journey ⟩
February 5, 2019
Chan in the Media China Initiative Community and Partners International Students
By Evan Nicholas Yijun “Jane” Liu and Hui “Angela” Wang knew they were in for an adventure when they accepted a 2017 offer to become USC Chan’s China Initiative Scholars. As such, Yijun and Hui will earn both master's and clinical doctorate degrees at USC before accepting positions in…
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Delegation from PUHSC Visits Salt Lake City and Los Angeles | April 2018 ⟩
July 23, 2018
Associations and Bodies China Initiative Community and Partners Conferences Faculty International
Purpose In April, the USC Chan Division once again hosted a delegation from PUHSC at the annual conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association, held in April 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition to conference-related educational and social activities, the delegation visited the…
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China Initiative Visits Beijing and Kunming | March–April 2018 ⟩
February 15, 2018
China Initiative Community and Partners Conferences Faculty International Lectures and Talks Students
Purpose In March and April, members of the USC Chan China Initiative team traveled to Beijing and Kunming. In Beijing, they visited the PKU 6th Hospital (Peking Mental Health Institute), the Beijing Haidian District Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital and the Xueyuan Road Community Service…
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China Initiative Visits Hong Kong, Beijing, and Fuzhou | December 2017 ⟩
February 15, 2018
Associations and Bodies China Initiative Community and Partners Conferences Faculty International Lectures and Talks Students
Purpose In December, a USC Chan China Initiative delegation visited Hong Kong, Beijing and Fuzhou. In Hong Kong, members of the team visited and dined with Mrs. T.H. Chan and her family including USC Trustee Ronnie C. Chan MBA ’76. In Beijing, team members attended and delivered presentations at…
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APOTS in Taiwan ⟩
October 5, 2017
Associations and Bodies China Initiative Community and Partners Faculty International
Purpose The USC Chan China Initiative team attended the first-ever Asia-Pacific Occupational Therapy Symposium, hosted October 17-22 by the Taiwan Occupational Therapy Association, Chang Gung University's Department of Occupational Therapy and the Asia-Pacific Occupational Therapy Regional Group…
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Chinese Delegation at AOTA Conference ⟩
April 1, 2017
Associations and Bodies China Initiative Conferences International
Purpose Faculty members from Peking University Health Science Center, who are collaborating with the USC Chan Division to develop the details of the China Initiative curriculum and program, traveled from Beijing to Philadelphia to attend the American Occupational Therapy Association's annual…
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USC, Peking University to team on one of China’s first graduate programs in occupational therapy ⟩
October 17, 2016
Chan in the Media China Initiative Community and Partners Faculty International
The partnership has the potential to transform the quality of life for millions of people, USC provost says
By Mike McNulty and John Hobbs/USC Today USC Provost Michael Quick and Peking University Health Science Center President Qimin Zhan formalize the partnership between the two institutions. (Photo/Philip Channing) USC and Peking University have forged a partnership that could impact the quality of…
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Inaugural class inducts new sensory integration continuing education ⟩
September 2, 2016
Academics and Courses Clinical Faculty International
By Mike McNulty Clinical professor Erna Blanche and research assistant professor Stefanie Bodison review video of a SI treatment session. (Photo/Phil Channing) The inaugural cohort of participants has successfully completed the first of USC’s new sequential four-course Sensory Integration (SI)…
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