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Each year the UIC Department of Occupational Therapy holds a free CE event for alumni of our Department. This last Saturday over 30 UIC alumni participated in a 3 hour workshop on health care reform and advocacy titled, "Health Care Reform: Getting Involved and Shaping Our Future." Clinical...

What a great day today! One of the roles that I have fulfilled for AOTA recently is to serve as Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on Health Care Reform Implementation. I have worked with AOTA national affairs staff and with a great group of volunteers to examine how health care reform will impact...

So it has been a little while since my last post. The Spring was long and intense and after Orlando I had many other things to catch up on.........and now my term as Speaker of the Representative Assembly is over in just a little over a week. This last week the Board of Directors met at AOTA Headquarters...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to my Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky speak to a crowd of about 700 in downtown Chicago at a "Healthcare for America Now" rally. Here is the link for those interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzRiM9T98Q0 Now is such an important time for us...

I spent a thrilling weekend in Washington DC and Bethesda Maryland along with the other committed members of the AOTA Board of Directors for the AOTA "Capital Hill Day" and the fall Board of Directors' meeting. On Thursday I flew into Washington early and had the opportunity to visit...