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Meet the 2010 Officers
President:
Gretchen Chamberlain: Received a Masters of
Occupational Therapy from West Virginia University. She has
worked in long term care in Delaware, acute and rehab in Missouri,
and has worked for the Anchorage School District since 2006.
Vice-President:
Jackie Brown:
OTR/L, relocated to
the Anchorage area from Washington State in January 2007. She
has been working for families and children with special needs over
the past 9 years in the Tacoma, Kitsap County, and Anchorage areas.
Secretary:
Susan Kaplan: Spent 24 years as a professor at Florida
International University. She is currently the Occupational Therapy
Liaison for the Creighton University/UAA OT Program in Anchorage.
Treasurer:
Mary Mayer: Has been an Occupational Therapist for the
Anchorage School District for 10 years. She worked as a
special education teacher before becoming an OT.
AOTA Representative:
Pauline Bennett-Gannon, OTR/L has served in many
capacities with the association and provided leadership as President
for several terms. She is a long time therapist with the
Fairbanks Northstar Borough School District.
AOTA Alternate Representative:
Liz Dowler Ph.D., CPE, OTR/L, CRC
is co-owner of D&W Rehab, Inc. where she specializes in forensic
rehabilitation and workers compensation. She continues to provide
consultation to Situs Ergonomics and practices part-time as an OT at
Alaska Healing Arts specializing in orthopedic and repetitive motion
injuries. She teaches Ergonomics at the OT Dept. at Pacific
University. She is currently semi-retired and retreats to her house
on the Kenai River every other week.
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