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China Initiative Visits Shanghai | April 2019 ⟩
April 30, 2019

China Initiative Conferences Faculty International Lectures and Talks Students

Purpose In April 2019, members of the USC Chan China Initiative team traveled to Shanghai to attend the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (CARM) 2nd Annual Occupational Therapy Subcommittee Meeting. Prior to conference activities, the team had the opportunity to visit Shanghai…

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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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Semira Dariushnia named 2019 commencement speaker ⟩
April 8, 2019

Events Lectures and Talks

Family physician and USC Chan Board of Councilors member to keynote May 10 ceremony

Semira Dariushnia, USC Chan's 2019 commencement speaker. (Photo by Glenn Marzano) Semira Dariushnia will address hundreds of Trojan occupational therapy graduates as USC Chan’s 2019 commencement speaker. The family physician is passionate about the provision of quality health care and the…

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Archive officially opens with Trojan Family fete ⟩
June 18, 2018

Events Faculty Lectures and Talks

More than two years in the making, new USC Chan Archive holds rare and historically significant items.

By Mike McNulty Grace Baranek and Florence Clark unveil the portrait honoring Clark's 42 years as a USC occupational therapy faculty member. (Photo by Glenn Marzano) Occupational therapists from across the generations convened on June 15 to celebrate the opening of a new archive and to honor newly…

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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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China Initiative Visits Beijing and Guiyang | June 2017 ⟩
June 27, 2017

China Initiative Community and Partners Conferences Faculty Lectures and Talks Students

Purpose To meet with China Initiative partners and attend the “3rd Annual Conference of Rehabilitation Medicine Society of China International Exchange and Promotion Association for Medicine and Healthcare” highlighted with a keynote address by China Initiative Director Julie McLaughlin Gray.…

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Occupational therapy helps young adults with diabetes ⟩
June 21, 2017

Associations and Bodies Chan in the Media Conferences Faculty Lectures and Talks Lifestyle Redesign

By Miriam E. Tucker/Medscape An occupational therapy intervention can help improve HbA1c and improve quality of life in young adults with diabetes, new research finds. Results from the randomized, controlled Resilient, Empowered Active Living (REAL) diabetes study were presented June 11 here at the…

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AOTA president Amy Lamb keynotes 2017 commencement ⟩
April 26, 2017

Associations and Bodies Events Lectures and Talks Students

By Mike McNulty 2017 USC Chan commencement speaker Amy Lamb/Photo courtesy of the American Occupational Therapy Association Amy Lamb OTD, OT/L, FAOTA, president of the American Occupational Therapy Association and an occupational therapy faculty member at Eastern Michigan University, will deliver…

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China Initiative Visits Yantai and Shanghai | October–November 2016 ⟩
November 27, 2016

China Initiative Community and Partners Faculty Lectures and Talks Students

Purpose In Yantai, the team presented at the "Fourth National Congress of Rehabilitation Education of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine." Carey Sokol and OTD Resident Lily Xu presented on OT fieldwork models in the US, while Adley Chan and OTD Resident Sherry Chen gave a…

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