2025 UW OT Forum: Bridging Research and Practice

Calling all OTs! Join us during OT Month for the UW OT Forum: Bridging Research and Practice.

The goal of the UW OT Forum is to highlight innovation and impact in OT research and practice and share this with UW alumni and the clinical community. We want to bridge communication among researchers, faculty and clinicians, and elevate conversations about research and scholarship that advance OT education, evidence-based practice and client outcomes. We have impactful research happening in our UW Division of OT and in our OT community and this is one way to share that work more broadly. The UW OT Forum will be held virtually to extend our reach. CEUs will be awarded. This is a free event for OTs.

Rebuilding life after stroke: Innovative approaches to functional recovery and community reintegration

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Meet our speakers

Danbi Lee, PhD, OTD, OTR/L

Danbi Lee is an Associate Professor in the Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Core Faculty in the Disability Studies program at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on promoting the Chronic Care Model and occupation-based self-management approaches in stroke rehabilitation to support post-stroke transition to community living and participation. She will share findings from a decade of research, along with ongoing work by her and her collaborators, on the development and evaluation of the “Improving Participation After Stroke Self-Management program (IPASS)” – an intervention designed to equip stroke survivors with strategies and confidence to navigate their lives and participate in their communities.

Emma Gregg (she/hers), OTD, OTR/L

Emma Gregg is an Occupational Therapist and PhD student in Rehabilitation Science at the University of Washington. In her professional time, Emma provides home and community-based rehabilitation services to people with acquired neurological conditions. As a PhD student, she has been involved in research related to stroke outcomes and has assisted with updating educational curricula related to occupational therapy theory and practice for neurological conditions. She is interested in research that focuses on supporting people aging with acquired neurological conditions, including the role of concepts such as functional cognition and disability identity on participation and well-being. In this session, Emma will share innovations in evidence-based assessment and intervention for functional cognition. She will also discuss practical strategies for integrating these approaches into practice to enhance community reintegration after stroke.

Adrià Robert-Gonzalez, MOT, OTR/L

Adrià is an Occupational Therapist and PhD student in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington. His studies focus on upper extremity rehabilitation for people with stroke and spinal cord injury. Adrià is a member of the Restorative Technologies Laboratory, where they study novel technologies that stimulate the central nervous system and promote functional recovery. He will discuss current research with non-invasive transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation and invasive epidural cortical stimulation. Specifically, how these novel technologies are used in synergy with occupational therapy-based rehabilitation to improve upper extremity function in people with stroke and facilitate clinical translation.