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Autism and the Dentist Could occupational science help ease dental-chair anxiety for children with autism? for
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Keeping Trojans Healthy Long Into Healthy their Golden Years
Research Buzz
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News Briefs Keep your finger on the pulse off what’s going on at the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.
With help from a Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation grant, Adjunct djunct Research Assistant Professor rofessor Jesús Díaz and his research team are working to develop an app that would help manage pressure sores.
Florence Clark PhD ’82, OTR/L, FAOTA Board ard of Councilors Michael T. Berthelette MSM, OTR/L Mark ark E. Biehl Semira Dariushnia MD, DAAFP
Linda L. Florey PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Mary ary Elizabeth Foto OTR/L, FAOTA Mary ary Kay Gallagher MA, OTR/L W Wayne Hinthorn MS Grace Ho MA, MPH, OTR/L Kathy athy Hoffmann-Grotting OTR/L, FAOTA F Frances Weiss Kelley OTR
the official publication of the usc division of occupational science and occupational therapy ASSOCIATE DEAN AND CHAIR FLORENCE CLARK PHD ’82
DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS MIKE MCNULTY ’06, MA ’09, OTD ’10
DEAN AVISHAI SADAN
PHOTOGRAPHY PHIL CHANNING KIMBERLY KELTON ’07, MBA ’15 RICHARD THORNTON JOHN SKALICKY DESIGN JHK CREATIVE
Shadow of His Former Self Gastric bypass helped him drop 120 pounds. Regular meetings with his occupational therapist helps him keep it off. Meet Lifestyle ifestyle Redesign success story David Morrison.
Inside USC Emeriti Center’s Fit it for Life Symposium
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CONTRIBUTORS STELLA CHUNG ’16 JESÚS DÍAZ ’05, MA ’08, OTD ’09 JOHN HOBBS MA ’14 MARA HYMAN ’14 MIKE MCNULTY ANN NEVILLE-JAN BETH NEWCOMB MPH ’13 CALEN OUELLETTE YASMINE PEZESHKPOUR MA ’17 DEBORAH PITTS PHD ’12 ROB RUSSOW MA ’14 JANICE VERCOUTERE
Susan Knox PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Lawrene Kovalenko MA, OTR Keith Matsutsuyu Colette U. Nagami OTR/L James J. Papai MPH Shawn hawn Phipps PhD, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA Patricia Volland V Plumtree
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