11 engagement. The academy focuses on poverty and health/wellness linked to chronic disease management and its impact on quality of life. Dr. Van Oss also serves as a board member at a local homeless shelter and the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University. Interprofessional Collaboration Award Regina F. Doherty, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA, FNAP MGH Institute of Health Professions Boston, Massachusetts Leader in Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Scholarship In close to three decades as an occupational therapist, Dr. Regina F. Doherty, has demonstrated exemplary interprofessional collaboration in advancing compassionate client-centered care, implementing and evaluating innovative interprofessional educational models, and contributing impactful scholarship on ethics in the health professions. Dr. Doherty is an Associate Professor and the founding director of the Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, Massachusetts. Her collaborative research and curricular innovations have spawned a variety of practice and ed- ucation initiatives including interprofessional student-led client service delivery models, interprofessional simulation-based learning, and models for interprofes- sional ethics deliberation. Dr. Doherty’s highly visible work in interprofessional education and practice (IPEP) and ethics has been disseminated at a wide variety of national and international professional conferences. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and textbooks in healthcare ethics, health professional-patient interactions, and IPEP. Dr. Doherty is an AOTA Fellow and a Distinguished Scholar in the National Academies of Practice. She is a proud mom and avid gardener. Kimberly Hartmann, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Quinnipiac University Hamden, Connecticut Excellence in Interprofessional Education of Future Practitioners Dr. Kimberly Hartmann developed the Quinnipiac University Center for Inter- professional Healthcare Education. As the director of this center, she works with four schools at the university and two schools at other universities to design and implement interprofessional learning activities. The case studies, seminars, and community service opportunities serve over 3,000 students annually in order to learn with-by-from each other for high quality team-based care. The Center for Interprofessional Healthcare Education also coordinates a program where students can earn graduation distinction in interprofessional healthcare education for an additional 80 hours of interprofessional learning. She oversees the four online modules in the foundations of interprofessional education (IPE) where 400 students per semester engage in interactive virtual learning activities to acquire knowledge of interprofessional practice. In her role she coordinates a program to build faculty capacity for developing IPE and scholarly endeavors including the program of Fellows in Interprofessional Healthcare Education in Nursing, Medicine and Health Sciences. Any award in this field represents the collective work of many professionals committed to interprofessional healthcare for improved health care outcomes. continued

12 Patricia Jean Precin, PhD, PsyaD, NCPsyA, LP, OTR/L, FAOTA Columbia University New York, New York Exemplary Interprofessional Collaboration in Clinic and Education Dr. Pat Precin is currently an Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Columbia University the OT Intern Coordinator, Program Developer, and Super- visor at Ohel (serving adult populations diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and intellectual disabilities/developmental delays) and a Manhattan psycho- analyst. Dr. Precin developed and published the Aggregate Fieldwork Model for Level II fieldwork placements. This model consists of cooperative learning, clinical project or research publication, and interprofessional collaboration and intervention. Her model has been used to encourage educators, supervisors, interns, and staff to work together to provide clinical services, train interns, and publish material to improve the quality and quantity of students’ fieldwork experiences, interprofessional attitudes, and skills. She developed the SPOTS Model (Sustainable Population-based Occupational Therapy Sites), which has been used to give students the practical skills necessary for designing and implementing their own sustainable fieldwork sites in underserved populations without access to OT. Dr. Precin brought OT practice to many organizations with- out access to services through her leadership roles as Executive Director of the Fostering Connection, Managing Director of Pathways to Housing, Director of a welfare-to-work program, consultant to InCube, a consumer run agency helping people with mental illness start and run their own businesses, and psychosocial expert witness for various law firms. Cordelia Myers AJOT Best Article Award Wesam B. Darawsheh, PhD, MSc, BSc The University of Jordan Amman, Jordan Darawsheh, W. (2019). Exploration of Occupational Deprivation Among Syrian Refugees Displaced in Jordan. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 73, 7304205030. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2019.030460. Dr. Wesam Darawsheh conducted a qualitative study investigating experiences of occupational deprivation among Syrian refugees in Jordan. She interviewed 49 adult Syrian refugees who fled to Jordan after the war in Syria began in 2011. Twenty-four participants lived outside the refugee camps, and 25 lived inside the Zaatari refugee camp. Exploring the ways in which the refugees managed their day-to-day lives facilitated an understanding of the effects of displacement on participation in meaningful occupations. The study found that Syrian refugees experienced occupational deprivation, which in turn had negative effects on their health, well-being, and sense of humanity. Dr. Darawsheh’s paper notes that because occupational deprivation has sociocultural connotations, the meaning of occupational deprivation will differ across refugee populations and displacement contexts. The implications of displacement and occupational deprivation for health and well-being are timely in the current geopolitical climate, and the study was conducted with a high degree of trustworthiness and rigor. This research will be helpful to occupational therapists who may encounter refugee populations in their practice settings.