{"id":3563,"date":"2018-02-11T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/ocsci\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T18:29:13","slug":"phd-program-alumni-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/phd-program-alumni-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Program Alumni Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3564\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 235px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3564 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Kirby and Lauren Little at the AOTA Conference\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download-2-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download-2.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Anne Kirby and Lauren Little at the AOTA Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Anne Kirby<\/b>, PhD, OTR\/L, (Class of 2015) of the University of Utah, was awarded an AOTF Intervention Research Grant for \u201cPilot Study of the MAPPS (Maximizing Adolescent Post-Secondary Success) Intervention.\u201d Mentor: Himle Michael, PhD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Lauren Little<\/b>, PhD, OTR\/L, (Class of 2012) of Rush University\u00a0was awarded an AOTF Intervention Research Grant for \u201cBridging a Service Gap in Autism: A Hybrid Education-Coaching Intervention\u201d Mentor: Winifred Dunn, PhD, OTR\/L, FAOTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Khalilah Robinson Johnson<\/b>, PhD, OTR\/L is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University at the iCubed transdisciplinary center devoted to diversity and inclusion. She has recently been appointed as coordinator of advocacy and policy for the Developmental Disabilities Special Interest Section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Heather Fritz<\/b>, PhD, OTR\/L Assistant Professor at Wayne State University recently received a grant through the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to evaluate the feasibility and to determine preliminary outcomes of an occupational therapy based frailty prevention program around community-dwelling, pre-frail African Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Kirby, PhD, OTR\/L, (Class of 2015) of the University of Utah, was awarded an AOTF Intervention Research Grant for \u201cPilot Study of the MAPPS (Maximizing Adolescent Post-Secondary Success) Intervention.\u201d Mentor: Himle Michael, PhD. Lauren Little, PhD, OTR\/L, (Class of 2012) of Rush University\u00a0was awarded an AOTF Intervention Research Grant for \u201cBridging a Service Gap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/phd-program-alumni-updates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about PhD Program Alumni Updates\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70628,"featured_media":3566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download-300x225.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/05\/download-150x113.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Breakfast with a Scholar at 2018 AOTA, featuring Molly McCully Brown","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}