Category: OT News

On Thursday evening UNC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy hosted the Spring 2025 Mitchell Symposium: “Embodied Testimony and Praxis: Reimagining Ways of Knowing in Occupational Science”.  This hybrid event was attended by students, faculty and staff. After Dr. Manigault Bryant’s presentation, attendees enjoyed a reception in the OT...

Rebecca Aldrich, PhD, OTR/L, and Antoine Bailliard, PhD, OTR/L, were the first two graduates of the Occupational Science PhD program in 2011. In the years since, both have embarked upon impactful careers involving research, teaching and both clinical and community practice. Aldrich and Bailliard returned to UNC-Chapel Hill to deliver...

The North Carolina Occupational Therapy Association (NCOTA) will host its annual conference November 3-5, 2023. This year, UNC Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy faculty and students will be on-site in Salisbury, NC to present the below topics. Master’s in OT students will also be in attendance to present their research...

A continuing education ethics event hosted in March by the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy—originally intended for an in-person audience—drew more than 400 participants after it moved online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The student-planned event, titled “Racism in OT Practice: Addressing Ethical Dilemmas and Promoting...

The 2020 Mitchell Symposium featured Sarah Kantartzis, DipCOT, MSC, PhD, “The Collective, our Collectivity and Collective Occupation.” Kantartzis is a senior lecturer in occupational therapy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. Access the symposium Download the PowerPoint, linked in the above button. Begin the slideshow within PowerPoint. The PowerPoint has embedded...

The 2019 Mitchell Symposium featured Elizabeth “Anne” Kinsella, PhD, MAdEd, BsC(OT), an associate professor in the School of Occupational Therapy, and member of the Occupational Science and Health Professional Education Field in the Health & Rehabilitation Sciences graduate program at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Kinsella’s talk, titled “Embodiment and Human Occupation: Implications for Health and Social...

Virginia Dickie, PhD, OT, FAOTA, was the honored scholar at the 2018 Mitchell Symposium, an annual event hosted by the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. The symposium was established in 2011 in honor and memory of Marlys Mitchell, PhD, the founder of the master’s program in OT at...

The Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy has selected Nancy Bagatell, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, as its new director effective July 1, 2017. Nancy Bagatell, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA The UNC School of Medicine Department of Allied Health Sciences has named Nancy Bagatell, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, as the incoming director of...

For the 2017 Mitchell Symposium, the Department of Allied Health Sciences’ Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy welcomed Joy Hammel, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, with the University of Illinois at Chicago. Joy Hammel, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, presents at the 2017 Mitchell Symposium. Alumni, students, and friends of the Division of...