ART CART Faculty, 2015 – 16

It has been my pleasure to work with ART CART since its inception in 2009 and to continue to do so as Interdisciplinary Teamwork Coordinator and consultant in gerontology and health promotion. Currently, a special Research Scientist/Scholar at Columbia University's Programs in Occupational Therapy, and formerly an Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy in the Faculty of Medicine, I have created service-learning health promotion programs which brought occupational therapy, public health, and nursing students into more than 20 community agencies that serve older adults in the five boroughs of New York. I am a Co-Module Director of the New York-Columbia Geriatric Education Centers Consortium, where I teach interdisciplinary teamwork annually to health care practitioners throughout NYS. Other areas of emphasis in presentations at local, state and national meetings and in publications include home safety, fall prevention and assessment and treatment of depression. I am excited to collaborate once more in ART CART: Saving the Legacy. The artists, their working partners, the fellows and the faculty continue to be an inspiring and dedicated group of people.