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Sara Kelleher Peña, MS, MEd, OTR/L | Department of Health Sciences

Sara Kelleher Peña, MS, MEd, OTR/L

OT Admissions Coordinator

Instructor/Program Coordinator SHINES Training Grant

Fieldwork Specialist

Novant Lead

Contact Information

Address

Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy:
321 S Columbia St
Bondurant Hall Room 2051
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

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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

  1. Admissions Coordinator manages prospective student experience via answering emails, facilitating information sessions, coordinating class visits, application reviews and interviews.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. General communications support: Manage social media for Division of OS/OT.

  • B.A. in Journalism

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • M.S. in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • MEd

    Lesley University

You seem like a cool person.

Middle school student to OTRHC member