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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 am very excited to have been approved by the Nominating Committee as a candidate for the office of AOTA Vice-President for 2012 to 2015! I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about myself as an occupational therapist and as a long-time volunteer for AOTA and the profession. Over the...

So yes........I am due to give an update on the strategic planning and visioning process I am leading in my Department....it is moving along a little slowly but getting there. More important right now is 2 stepping! Yes, 2 stepping!!!! Slow, slow...quick, quick, and quick, quick, slow slow! Conversations...

So I have been at my job as Director of Rehabilitation Services at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center for 2 whole months. Yesterday I was in a meeting with my fellow Directors in my Division and I shared that with them AND that clearly it seem my honeymoon period as a new Director was over. People were so...

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...

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...

The summer has been busy (and HOT) in Houston! Much of July was spent on preparing the budget for the 2012 fiscal year which starts today and operational planning and issues, but we continue to move along with the strategic planning process in the Department of Rehabilitation at the University of...

Wow, how time flies! Almost two months since I wrote my last blog post. When last we left our hero (grin) he was off to Philadelphia to engage in mortal combat on the dance floor at the AOTF Dancing with the Stars event at Annual Conference. If you have not seen the photos on the NorthCoast Medical...

So, we continue with our process of strategic planning and visioning in the Department of Rehabilitation Services at MD Anderson Cancer Center. This month we are conducting a SWOT (strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats) analysis to compliment the SOAR (strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and...