Sara Kelleher Peña, OTR/L, MEd
Fieldwork and Admissions Specialist
Novant Lead
SHINES Training Grant Program Coordinator
Areas of Interest
Clinical Education; Clinical Instruction; Fieldwork; Rural Health Initiatives; School-Based Practice; High-Leverage Practices
About
- Fieldwork support focuses on securing fieldwork sites and providing training to clinical educators in a variety of sites, focusing on the division’s Novant initiative to increase the presence of practitioners in the southeastern part of the state.
- Admissions support focuses on managing the prospective student experience via information sessions, class visits and supporting application reviews
- Novant lead focuses on broadening access to OT services in a 5-county Southeast N.C. region, as well as recruiting providers; lead the Division’s first-ever Occupational Therapy Rural Health Committee, which conducts in-person site and classroom visits in the region
- SHINES Training Grant Program Coordinator focuses on helping recruit, advise, retain, mentor and evaluate Scholars
- General communications support: Manage social media for OS/OT division
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B.A. in Journalism
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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M.S. in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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MEd
Lesley University
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