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I magine it is the year 2021 and while we may not have fully realized our Centennial Vision (it IS an aspirational vision of the future after all!) our profession has become much more widely recognized, we've become more politically savvy and active (e.g. powerful), our researchers and scholars are...

I have visited a couple of occupational therapy programs in the last few weeks in my role as the Chairperson of the AOTA Ad Hoc Committee on Health Care Reform to talk about current reform initiatives, the potential impacts on occupational therapy and what students can do to become informed and play...

Recently the new President of the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Ronald DePinho, shared his vision that we will cure 5 cancers in the foreseeable future. Now THAT is a vision worth supporting! I believe it to be true; when you have a strong, clear, aspirational vision of the future it is easy to rally...

I am off to Washington D.C. today to join over 300 other occupational therapy practitioners and students to promote the profession and help make occupational widely recognized and powerful in the halls of Congress on Monday!. I am lucky to be able to travel to be there in person, but if you cannot...

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. The slate of candidates for the 2013 AOTA elections was posted today and I am happy to share that I am running for the office of AOTA Secretary. With just a few years until our Centennial year there is important work to be done. I believe that my experience as a clinician...

My blogging hiatus is over! Now that the national election is settled and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (AKA as "Obamacare") has little chance of being repealed or replaced the question becomes, "What now for occupational therapy?" No matter what you thought about...

Today was a perfect day as a professional. Today I presented along with a large group of my physical therapy colleagues at the Texas Physical Therapy Association Conference in the The Woodlands, Texas. These colleagues are all members of the staff I supervise and they submitted a full day workshop...

Well 2010 is almost upon us. I am spending one last day working (on my book!) before heading off to the Pennsylvania mountains for a week of skiing and relaxing with friends! New Year's is just 3 days away and I have a pretty typical list of personal resolutions.........go to gym more regularly,...

I have to admit that I am a political junkie! During our recent election cycle I visited CNN, the Huffington Post, Fox News, and most of the major poll sites not once but several times a day. I also spent a lot of time discussing and debating the candidates and the issues with friends and acquantances...