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Inaugural Doctor of Occupational Therapy student, Natalia Anzaldúa Ayala, is selected as the 2025 GW Commencement Student Speaker.

Trudy Mallinson has been awarded the 2026 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship.

Faculty and 17 Doctor of Occupational Therapy students attended the AOTA Inspire 2025 Annual Conference & Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kellie Sawyer, OTD, OTR/L has been appointed the associate program director for the Doctor of Occupational Therapy program.

Trudy Mallinson has been inducted to the American Occupational Therapy Foundation’s (AOTF) Academy of Research (AOR) for the year 2025.

Joyce Maring, EdD, DPT held various faculty, administrative, and leadership roles within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) over twenty years.

The GW Doctor of Occupational Therapy program has received a full, seven-year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences inaugurated its Bicentennial Faculty Lecture Series with a presentation by Roger Ideishi, JD, OT/L, FAOTA, program director of the occupational therapy program on October 24, 2024.

Drs. Roger Ideishi, Program Director and Professor, and Sarah Doerrer, Assistant Professor, are partnering with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts / Access VSA on a five year $10 million federal grant from the Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation…

Faculty receive a three-year $600,000 federal grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDLIRR).