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Alumna earns highest award from Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists ⟩
June 4, 2019
Alumni Associations and Bodies Awards Lectures and Talks
Susan Forwell MA ’89, PhD ’05 was awarded the 2018 Muriel Driver Memorial Lectureship Award by the Conference of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists. The award honors a CAOT member who has made outstanding contributions to the profession through scholarship, education and…
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Shawn Phipps delivers TEDx talk on occupational therapy and neuroplasticity ⟩
May 31, 2019
Chan in the Media Clinical Faculty Lectures and Talks
Watch the TEDx talk from Shawn Phipps ’97, Board of Councilors member and adjunct faculty, from March's TEDxAlmansorPark event organized by alumnus Bill Wong MA ’11, OTD ’13.
Shawn Phipps at TEDxAlmansorPark Shawn Phipps, PhD, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA tells the inspirational story of the challenges and triumphs of a patient who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury from a motor vehicle accident. The power of Occupational Therapy and Neuroplasticity is described using the…
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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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