Vanderkooi Endowed Lectureship
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29th Annual Vanderkooi Endowed Lectureship
Friday, February 11, 2022
Demonstrating Occupational Therapy’s Unique Value with a Manualized Wellness Intervention
Featuring Catana Brown, PhD, OTR
The Nutrition and Exercise for Wellness and Recovery (NEW-R) program is an 8-week manualized intervention designed for individuals with serious mental illness. This presentation will use the NEW-R program to illustrate the benefits of manualized interventions for increasing the adoption and visibility of occupational therapy programs and promoting intervention research. Results of two research studies will be presented. In both cases improvements were site specific suggesting that the environment plays an important role in client response to the intervention.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Catana Brown received her B.S. in occupational therapy from Colorado State University in 1981, her M.A. in occupational therapy from New York University in 1984 and her PhD in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Research, Measurement and Statistics from the University of Kansas in 1999. Her clinical and research experience has focused on supporting successful and satisfying community living for individuals with serious mental illness. Dr. Brown is an author of the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile, The Test of Grocery Shopping Skills, The Evidence Based Practitioner and a co-editor of Occupational Therapy in Mental Health: A Vision for Participation and the 14th edition of Willard and Spackman’s Occupational Therapy.
About the Lectureship
The Vanderkooi Endowed Lectureship was established in 1994 to honor the first program director of occupational therapy at Texas Woman’s University, Fanny B. Vanderkooi. It celebrates the School of Occupational Therapy’s legacy of commitment to vision, professional values, and leadership development in occupational therapy education, practice and research. The event is typically attended by more than 250 occupational therapy professionals, inclusive of students.
Founders – Vanderkooi Endowment
Roland & Virginia Chandler Dykes
George & Grace Gilkeson
Bonnie Strauss
Vanderkooi Advisory Committee
Noralyn Pickens, Chairperson
Sarah Borsh
Regina Michael Campbell
Cynthia Evetts
Thomas Halka
Heather McBride
Monica McClain
Amy Ornelas
Gail Poskey
Virginia Chandler Dykes (Emeritus)
Community Building Workshops Planning Committee
Gail Poskey, Chair
Shannon Levandowski
Jennie Martin
Marsha Neville
1993 Lela Llorens, PhD, OTR
1994 Charles Christiansen, Ed.D, OTR
1995 Penny Kyler-Hutchinson, MA, OTR/L, FAOTA
1996/97 Catherine Trombly, PhD, OTR
1998 Carolyn Baum, PhD, OTR
1999 Beatriz Abreu, PhD, OTR
2000 Shereen Farber, PhD, OTR
2001 Linda Fazio, PhD, OTR
2002 Karen Jacobs, EdD, OTR
2003 Barbara Kornblau, JD, OT/L
2004 Patricia Crist, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
2005 Jim Hinojosa, PhD
2006 Suzanne Peloquin, PhD, OTR, FAOTA
2007 Wendy Wood, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
2008 Penelope Moyers, EdD, OTR/L, BCMH, FAOTA
2009 Kenneth Ottenbacher, PhD
2010 Barbara A. Boyt Schell, PhD, OT, FAOTA
2011 Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA
2012 Florence A. Clark, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
2013 Mary Law, PhD, MSc, BSc
2014 Jane Case-Smith, EdD, OT, FAOTA
2015 Susan Coppola, MS, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA
2016 Barbara M. Doucet, PhD, LOTR
2017 Anne G. Fisher, ScD, OT, FAOTA
2018 Thomas F. Fisher, PhD, OT, CCM, FAOTA
2019 Susan M. Cahill, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
2020 Deirdre R. Dawson, PhD, OT Reg. (Ont.)
2021 Roger O. Smith, PhD, OT, FAOTA
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