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Gary Wayne Kielhofner (February 15, 1949 – September 2, 2010) was an American social scientist and influential occupational therapy theorist who rose to prominence as a scholar during his time as Professor and Wade-Meyer Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She died in 1984, in Torrance, California, at the age of 75. [2] There is a small collection of her papers in the University Archives at USC. [19] In 2017, Rood was recognised by the America Occupational Therapy Association as 1 of 100 people who influenced the 100 year history of occupational therapy.
An occupational fatality is a death that occurs while a person is at work or performing work related tasks. Occupational fatalities are also commonly called "occupational deaths" or "work-related deaths/fatalities" and can occur in any industry or occupation .
Fossey began her career in occupational therapy. [17] She interned at hospitals in California and worked with tuberculosis patients. [18] Fossey had become a prizewinning equestrian, which drew her to Kentucky in 1955, and a year later took a job as an occupational therapist at the Kosair Crippled Children's Hospital in Louisville. [19]
Until March 1917, occupational therapy was not organized as a profession. This changed with the formation of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy (NSPOT) that year, for which she was a founding member. [4] During the third annual meeting of the NSPOT, she was elected president.
Charmaz’s background was in occupational therapy and sociology. Charmaz’s areas of expertise included grounded theory, symbolic interactionism, chronicity, death and dying, qualitative health research, scholarly writing, sociological theory, social psychology, research methods, health and medicine, aging, sociology of emotions, and the body.
Macdonald wrote articles, was a co-author and co-editor of textbooks. In 1938 ‘Bookbinding and Bookcraft in Occupational Therapy' was published in the first issue of the Association's Journal. [32] An article about ‘Occupational Therapy in Mental Health' published in the British Medical Bulletin in 1949, was reprinted in Occupational ...
She is credited as founding the first school for occupational therapy (OT) in India in 1948, when she started the OT department at KEM Hospital. [7] [8] In 1958 she founded a second school for OT in Nagpur. She was also founder of the All India Occupational Therapists Association (AIOTA) in 1952, and served as the association's president until ...