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uatingMScOT students will present the results of their year-
long research projects.
CAOT Conference
Over 20 of our current MScOT students and numer-
ous alumni and faculty made presentations at this year’s
CAOT Conference in Banff, Alberta. Many of our students
present at the conference each year, and this year we are
proud to announce that
Jeanette McGeough
and
Alicja
Mazierska
won a 2016 CAOT Student Bursary for their ab-
stract
Functional Outcomes of Music Supported Rehabil-
itation Post-Stroke: A Systematic Review
. The award is
given to the top 3 student abstracts submitted to the con-
ference. Congratulations to Jeanette and Alicja, and to their
project supervisors,
Lisa Engel, Dr. Deirdre Dawson
.
Also of note, was the session
Occupations of Youth
with Developmental Disabilities - Learning from the Ex-
perts
. The research team included
David Conforti
, one of
three youth with intellectual disabilities who act as consult-
ants to the project. David has participated in all research
team meetings and was a key presenter. The findings pre-
sented at CAOT were from a larger study called
From the
Margins: Voices of Youths with Disabilities on Friendship,
Inclusion and Quality of Life
.
OT and Advocacy
Focus of 2016 OT Alumni Special Event
Over 70 alumni, guests,
and students attended an OT
Alumni special event on April
27, which featured
Dr. Bonnie
Kirsh
(OT’78) sharing high-
lights from her 2015 Muriel
Driver Lecture,
Transforming
Values into Action: Advocacy
as a Professional Imperative
.
Dr. Kirsh, an expert in
mental health issues, gave an impassioned argument for
why occupational therapists should be more active advo-
cates. Following Dr. Kirsh’s presentation, a panel of our
alumni spoke about their own
advocacy experiences and
outcomes..
Moderated by
Karen
Goldenberg, CM
, the panel
included Beth Linkewich
(OT’02), Jenny Hardy (OT’13),
and
Robin
Mazumder
(OT’11).
Jenny Hardy
Robin Mazumber
Beth Linkewich