OT Digest

Dr. Jana Cason DHSc, OTR/L, FAOTA discusses the start of Telehealth in the OT world and how it has grown and changed over the years. She shares her experiences in the past and projects she is currently working on which includes a telehealth repository of resources of her company she started with Melanie Criss called TelehealthShare.

Dr. Merrill teaches cultural competence at the University of Buffalo to occupational therapy students. She completed her OTD capstone at Boston University on the ways to assess and support cultural competence for the OT profession.

In Pt 2. of this 2 part interview, Dr. Grullon, Dr. Hunnicutt and Dr. Whaley tell us about some action steps that they learned from their scoping review that you can use both as an OT and in your personal day to day life.

You may have seen the infographic I created based on an article reviewing Racial Microaggressions. As a follow up to that, I was grateful to interview with three of the authors of the original article, Dr. Emily Grullon, Dr. Carlneshia Hunnicutt and Dr. Mirtha Whaley about the background behind what motivated them to complete this review and the relationship between social and occupational justice. They answer the question, "Do OTs have a role addressing racial microaggresions when working with clients?". This article won the first ever FOTA award for the Soul of Occupational Therapy Award.

An interview with Dr. Brocha Stern about her research on self-management and distal radius fracture. In addition we discuss tips for finding research articles and how you can get more involved on the research side of OT while being a clinician.

Learn more about me (Katie Caspero) and what to expect from the OT Digest Podcast.

Starting September 15th, Katie Caspero OTR/L (Owner of OT Graphically) will interview OT research authors about what they are up to and what research topics they are passionate about. With this podcast, we hope to work to bridge the gap it takes to implement research into clinical practice.