Mark Meheriuk
Ashley Schmidt
Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta What sparked your interest in pursuing a career in occupational therapy? I first learned about occupational therapy while I was completing my undergraduate degree in Alberta. At the time, I was really struggling to choose a career path. I had the perfect idea of what I wanted to do, but I […]
Devon Cochrane
Hometown: Victoria, B.C. What sparked your interest in pursuing a career in occupational therapy? I wanted to work with people in a career in healthcare with a progressive and holistic approach to health. OT offered a fresh and unique perspective on health that really made sense to me. I was also attracted by the […]
Andrea Schneider
Hometown: Waterloo, Ontario What sparked your interest in pursuing a career in occupational therapy? I had a wonderful experience co-facilitating support groups for individuals with acquired brain injury at the Victoria Brain Injury Society. I enjoyed this so much that I started searching for a career that would allow me to do similar work […]
UBC wins the 2014 gOT Spirit Challenge
UBC’s MOT students once again bask in the glory for winning the gOT Spirit Challenge since their last victory of 2012. Well Done!!!
OSOT Postdoctoral Fellows
The Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy is always delighted to welcome postdoctoral fellows to engage in research in the department alongside faculty. The following are OSOT’s current postdocs and their research interests: Dr. Paula Mahon has worked in the BC Children’s Intensive Care Unit for 25 years as both a staff nurse and […]
Well done to Alison Gerlach, MSc (OT), UBC Alumni 2003
The Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy has recently published a list of top-read articles to celebrate OT month, with accompanying links for free access. Well done to Alison Gerlach, MSc (OT), UBC Alumni 2003, who is among the celebrated authors of one of these top-read papers. Her paper titled “A Critical Reflection on the Concept […]
Congratulations to Dr. Brodie Sakakibara
Dr. Brodie Sakakibara (former PhD student of Dr. Bill Miller) who won the CIHR post-doctoral prize for best poster at the Canadian Association of Gerontology Annual Scientific Meeting. The poster, “The prevalence of low mobility and self-management self-efficacy in manual wheelchair-users aged 50 and older” is based on his doctoral research. Brodie is now completing […]
Congratulations to Tal and her team,
who attended the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES) annual celebration day on October 9th, 2014 and won the “most thought-provoking poster” prize for their poster titled “My Accessibility Plan: Facilitating Access to Health and Human Service Education Well done!”
It’s back to school: meet some of this year’s incoming MOT students
As part of the Faculty of Medicine’s back-to-school series, we sat down with three of our incoming MOT students — Darren Wiebe, Hina Mahmood, and Kirsty Cameron — to talk about their interest in pursuing a career in occupational therapy, what excites them about the upcoming year, and where they see themselves in five years […]
More than a craft: OT student research on knitting demonstrates therapeutic benefits for the chronically ill
Cabling, purling, and twisting. A year ago, if you were to have asked Laura Brooks and Kim Ta about knitting techniques – they probably wouldn’t have had much to say. But today, Brooks and Ta can both speak volumes about the craft. “Knitting has made a come-back in both the craft world and health care,” […]