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Berg is an experienced pediatric clinician, mentor, and lecturer. She completed her doctorate in 2016 in educational leadership with a focus on the role of occupational therapy for postsecondary students with intellectual disabilities. Berg remains passionate about fostering the growth of students and clients with varying abilities to attain optimal life independence or co-independence and competitive wage employment.

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DiLuzio has experience working in a variety of occupational therapy settings. Her clinical practice has focused on serving adults with orthopedic and neurological impairments in inpatient rehabilitation and adults with serious mental illness in inpatient mental health. DiLuzio earned her OTD in 2019 with her Capstone Project focusing on preparation of students for international fieldwork experiences. After graduating with her OTD, DiLuzio has been facilitating student success as a Capstone Advisor. DiLuzio is passionate about providing empathetic, client-centered, and evidence-based occupational therapy care.

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Professor Garrison has over 20 years of experience working in the medical field including long term, inpatient hospital, and psychiatric care. Her OT clinical practice has been focused in servicing those with mental health disabilities in the rural Spokane area. During that time she also provided mentoring to both students and clinicians. She has a passion for fostering the growth and development of students as well as the Occupational Therapy profession at the community level in order to support those clients with the most needs. Her experience in education involves graduate-level courses in mental health, activity analysis/synthesis, and leadership.

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Lee has been employed in the educational administrative support arena for over 20 years and brings with her a wealth of experience, including recent experience with EWU and WSU. She received her BA in Gender Studies from the University of La Verne in southern California in 2011. Lee’s interests include scrapbooking and paper crafts, genealogy and church volunteer activities.

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Prof. Levad’s clinical practice experience has been in adult acute care and inpatient rehabilitation hospital settings. She has extensive evaluation and treatment skills in acute care orthopedics, neurology, cardiovascular, ICU, mental health and general surgery. Prof. Levad has been involved with Aphasia Camp Northwest assisting in the planning and coordination of summer camp for those diagnosed with aphasia and their loved ones.

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Leanna is an experienced occupational therapist within the adult population, having significant experience in the critical care setting. This includes treatment provided to individuals affected by cardiac and pulmonary dysfunction, trauma, neurological injuries, and stroke. She feels interprofessional collaboration is the key to a strong care team and loves to practice this. Leanna has been heavily involved in program development regarding student and new hire experience, by providing mentorship along with improving and building student and new hire programs. She has also provided training and mentorship to experienced clinicians in the critical care setting. She is passionate about occupational therapy and specifically the process an OT takes to address client issues and return the individual to their highest level of functioning.

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Emeritus status is an earned honor granted by the President to faculty who have served honorably and have consistently performed high quality work at Eastern Washington University.  Emeritus status permits the faculty member to remain active in the profession and in service to the university.  While an honor, it is also recognition that retired faculty remain an integral part of the academic community and a valuable resource to the university.  The relationship benefits both the university and the individual.

Diane Norell ’s career with EWU spanned more than twenty-five years, beginning in 1994 as a Faculty Field Instructor in the School of Social Work, and continuing in the Department of Occupational Therapy, as semester faculty, academic fieldwork coordinator, lecturer, and senior lecturer. For fifteen years, her position was a joint appointment between EWU and Washington State University; as a faculty with Eastern and a Research Associate with WSU’s Washington Institute for Mental Health Research and Training, (WIMHRT).

Norell received a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy (1974) from the University of North Dakota and a Master of Social Work (1982) from Eastern Washington University. Her practice area in both fields has been in public mental health and substance use/misuse systems of care. The dual role and unique lens of both occupational therapy and social work enabled her to specialize in psychiatric rehabilitation and provide an emphasis on inter-professional education to occupational therapy students.

Norell’s passion and experience enabled her to create a strong curriculum in the occupational therapy practice area of mental health. She had an innovative and effective teaching style with a desire to energize, inspire and motivate students. The use of humor, and open, collaborative dialogue resulted in consistent positive student’ responses. Beyond teaching, Norell served as an academic fieldwork coordinator. She collaborated with a vast number of regional fieldwork instructors in placement and engaged in the supervision of students during clinical internships. Her commitment to developing student placements in rural healthcare assisted the expansion of occupational therapy services to those areas.

Norell was a productive scholar during her tenure. She was a key author in several peer-reviewed journal articles; co-authored a book chapter and manuals regarding engaging clients and families in rehabilitation related to mental illness, spinal cord and traumatic brain injury; and participated as a presenter at local, national, and international conferences.

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Dane is an experienced Occupational Therapist with a diverse clinical background.  He has experience in the areas of pediatrics, acute inpatient rehabilitation, and industrial rehabilitation.  Much of his clinic experience is in adult physical rehabilitation where he worked with a variety of patient populations.  Dane has experience in the areas of spinal cord rehabilitation, orthopedics, stroke rehabilitation, and traumatic brain injury.  Over the course of his clinical career, Dane has developed a passion for roles that support underserved populations.  Those roles have included providing transitional skills training for young adults with disabilities and working with individuals who experience chronic pain.  Dane has considerable experience providing education in a clinical setting and a broad clinical background as a practicing therapist.