Research interests include community-based practice, facilitating performance of the worker role in persons with disabilities, and occupational performance in persons living with AIDS or other chronic diseases. Primary populations of interest include older adults and people with multiple sclerosis. Research activities utilize both qualitative and quantitative research approaches to address the changes over time that lead people to use services, and the ways that individuals explain and make sense of these changes and their relationship to service use. Oversees the entry-level master's program, including admissions, curriculum and student affairs. Teaches in the area of policy and legislation, including implications for practice, trends in health care and occupational therapy service delivery, and community-based practice.
Clinical background is in worker rehabilitation and management.
Research interests include health and disability policy, how policy affects occupational therapy practice and people with disabilities, and community practice. Clinical experience primarily in the area of physical disability. Has practiced internationally in acute care, rehabilitation and community based settings. Teaching responsibilities include lab-based classes designed to teach students therapeutic use of self and interactive reasoning. Research interests include examining change in functional status across time from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.