OTD News - Volume VIII, Issue 1

3 AOTA Conference By: Sheila Longpré, PhD, OTR/L AOTA Annual Conference This year the American Occupational Therapy Association celebrated 100 years of occu- pational therapy. The national conference was held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 3 to April 2, 2017. It was an historical event and many students and faculty from the OTD pro- gram at Tampa attending. The following are a list of individuals who were chosen among thousands of submissions to present: Children and Youth in Oncology: Implications for a Holistic Occupational Therapy Approach (short course with over 600 attendees) Sheila M. Longpré, PhD, OTR/L, and Jean MacLachlan, PhD, OTR/L, Salem State University, Salem, MA From Neurosurgery to Publication: Making the Most of Your Doctoral Experiential Component (short course) Sheila M. Longpré, MOT, OTR/L, and Ni He-Strocchio, OTD, OTR/L, University Therapists to Enter Private Practice: An Ongoing Mixed Methods Design (poster) Jordan Powers, OTD-S and Sarah Weldon, OTD-S; Contributing Authors: Thomas Decker, OTD, OTR/L; Ashley Edberg, OTD-S and Emil Methipara OTD-S. Page 12 OTD News, Volume VIII, Issue 1 Left to right: Sarah Weldon, OTD-S, Jordan Powers, OTD-S, and Thomas Decker, OTD, OTR/L