Chantelle Rice OTD ’09

Track: Advanced Clinical Practice

I wanted to expand occupational therapy services at USC into the realm of diabetes management. In additional to my occupational science and occupational therapy coursework, I took PM 599: Public Health Approaches to Diabetes, a Preventive Medicine course at the Keck School of Medicine, for the most recent medical-based research and client-center practice and ANTH 604: Bodies and Practice, an Anthropology course, to increase my ability to perceive the “lived-experience” of illness from the clients’ perspective. For my OTD project, I created the USC Lifestyle Redesign® Diabetes Program and at the conclusion of my OTD, I was hired by the USC Occupational Therapy Faculty Practice to continue to implement that program.

Note: Chantelle is now Director of the USC Occupational Therapy Faculty Practice and Associate Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy in the Chan Division.

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ACOTE accreditation | NBCOT certification

The USC entry-level master’s degree program (cost of attendance) is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education® (ACOTE). The USC entry-level OTD degree program (cost of attendance) has been granted Candidacy Status by ACOTE. View our program’s ACOTE standards public data. ACOTE c/o Accreditation Department, American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.®, 6116 Executive Boulevard, Suite 200, North Bethesda, MD 20852-4929, (301) 652-6611 x2914, acoteonline.org

Professional program graduates are eligible to apply for certification by National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc.® (NBCOT), nbcot.org. Program results from the NBCOT can be found online at www.nbcot.org/Educators-Folder/SchoolPerformance.