Sara Kelleher Peña, MS, MEd, OTR/L
OT Admissions Coordinator
Instructor/Program Coordinator SHINES Training Grant
Fieldwork Specialist
Novant Lead
Areas of Interest
Clinical Education; Clinical Instruction; Fieldwork; Rural Health Initiatives; School-Based Practice; High-Leverage Practices
About
- Admissions Coordinator manages prospective student experience via answering emails, facilitating information sessions, coordinating class visits, application reviews and interviews.
- 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.
- 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 Instructor, Program Coordinator: Instruct OCCT 896: Topics in School-Based Practice, High-Leverage Practice: Seminar III; Program Coordinator focuses on helping recruit, advise, retain, mentor and evaluate Scholars.
- General communications support: Manage social media for Division of OS/OT.
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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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