UF Occupational Therapy

01/05/2026

Ana Batista, second-year OTD student, was featured in the PHHP Student Spotlight! 😄🐊

College of Public Health and Health Professions students are dedicated to improving health and well-being in communities around the world.

01/05/2026

Second-year student, Paige Zolecki, was featured in PHHP news! 🐊😄

College of Public Health and Health Professions students are dedicated to improving health and well-being in communities around the world.

12/19/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Raghuveer Chandrashekhar who graduated last week with his PhD in Rehabilitation Science! His mentor is Dr. Hongwu Wang in the Department of Occupational Therapy. 🐊😄

12/18/2025

Last week, we celebrated our Class of 2025 with a White Coat Ceremony, Awards and Pinning Ceremony, and Commencement. 🩷🐊😄Congratulations to our newest colleagues in occupational therapy! Check out highlights below and here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1265326528961464&type=3

12/05/2025

Another exciting capstone project! Read more about Nicole Troilo, 4th year OTD student, and her study on therapy dogs and student stress! 😄🐊🐹

Can just 15 minutes of hanging out with a therapy dog reduce stress before class?Speaking for ourselves, absolutely. 🐶

Fourth-year Doctor of UF Occupational Therapy student Nicole Trolio completed her doctoral capstone, “Doctoral Students' Perceptions of Therapy Dogs on Stress Before and After Simulation Lab.” Involving 51 UF OT students and five therapy dogs from Canine Companions, her study showed reduced self-reported stress and negative symptoms, underscoring the value of animal-assisted therapy for mental health and academic performance. She presented her findings as a poster at the 2025 Florida Occupational Therapy Association Conference.

12/02/2025

We are so incredibly grateful to Bob and Carol Gwin! Read more below about their generous gift to the Department. 🩷🐊

12/01/2025

Liliana Salazar is finishing her final semester in UF's OTD! Learn more about her reason for choosing OT as her second career and her capstone project focused on executive function skills in toddlers and preschool-age children. 😄🐊

College of Public Health and Health Professions students are dedicated to improving health and well-being in communities around the world.

11/21/2025

Meet Tasleem Al-As'ad, fourth year OTD student, who focused her capstone project on early feeding education and intervention at UF's Early Childhood Collaboratory 🐊😄

College of Public Health and Health Professions students are dedicated to improving health and well-being in communities around the world.

11/19/2025

Fourth-year OTD student, Tyler Martin, is bringing nature closer to wheelchair users as part of his capstone 🐊🌞🌲

Tyler Martin's research focused on the benefit of an all-terrain wheelchair on wheelchair users' ability to participate in natural spaces.

11/17/2025

Dr. Anna Galloway is "Cultivating Curiosity" using medical improv in the adult rehab course! 😄🐊 See more in the latest issue of IMPACT.
https://phhp-news.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu/2025/10/29/cultivating-curiosity/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOINHBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFZOHN6R01NaENGU29GRHQwc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MghjYWxsc2l0ZQEyAAEevcZYqEiAAuz3SguC3KqOVMuqOawDqhlvaO4ymuh_m78VZKhKjCMob2YoUQM_aem_PykNouuRJibU1AKnZuqPnw

11/12/2025

More faculty greatness! Check out Dr. Hanson's day in the life below. 🐊🥰

11/05/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Horwitz for being awarded the David D. Clark OT Award of Excellence at the FOTA Conference this past weekend! 🎉 We are so proud of our students who presented and 2024 graduate, Jessica Goldman, OTD, OTR/L, for receiving an the Award for Rigor for her capstone project poster presentation! 😄 🐊Check it out: https://phhp.ufl.edu/2025/11/04/students-faculty-have-strong-showing-at-florida-occupational-therapy-association-conference/