14 Choosing Wisely ® Champion Recognition Award Amy Jennings, OTD, OTR/L Confluence Health Wenatchee, Washington What You’ve Learned Has to Be Shared Dr. Amy Jennings currently works as a practitioner for Confluence Health in Wenatchee, Washington, providing hospital-based outpatient neurorehabilitation services. She also serves as the Team Lead for the inpatient and outpatient OT groups. Dr. Jennings provides fall prevention lectures, is LSVT BIG certified, runs a driving safety assessment program, coordinates CarFit events, manages a bi-monthly wheelchair clinic, and serves on a spinal cord injury task force. Dr. Jennings earned her Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Regis University in 2008 and her Occupational Therapy Doctorate from Creighton University in 2012. She serves on AOTA’s Roster of Accreditation Evaluators and on the Washington Occupational Therapy Association’s (WOTA) Membership Committee. Dr. Jennings is honored to accept the Choosing Wisely ® Champion Recogni- tion. She presented on this topic at the WOTA Annual Conference in October 2019 focusing on the use of purposeful activity and generation of intervention ideas in addition, she strives to achieve purposeful, meaningful, client-centered treatment interventions in her daily practice. Cindy Kief, ND, COTA/L, ROH Cincinnati State Technical & Community College Cincinnati, Ohio Choosing Wisely Champion at Heart Ms. Cindy Kief is a COTA and Roster of Honor recipient who has been working in occupational therapy for 45 years and teaching for 31 years. Ms. Kief has been a champion of Choosing Wisely ® since AOTA announced its intent to join the initiative. She attended the first discussions at AOTA with Glen Gillen and waited patiently for the final announcement of AOTA’s acceptance with its identified recommendations. When the recommendations came out she immediately began teaching this to anyone who would listen, including her students and fieldwork educators. Ms. Kief has developed a form for students to use while on fieldwork to determine how closely the facility adheres to the Choosing Wisely ® Recommen- dations. This has led discussion towards encouraging all occupational therapy practitioners to practice at the top of their license. The form will be shared at the Annual Fieldwork Educators Workshop this year to further the discussion and encourage implementation of the recommendations.

15 AOTA/AOTF Presidents’ Commendation in Honor of Wilma L. West Wendy Coster, PhD, OT, OTR, FAOTA Department of Occupational Therapy, Sargent College Boston University Boston, Massachusetts Dr. Wendy J. Coster, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA received her Masters in Occupational Therapy at Boston University and has a PhD in psychology from Harvard and clinical preparation in occupational therapy. She is currently a Professor and Chair in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Sargent College, Boston University. Dr. Coster’s volunteer service to the Foundation spans over 35 years. She has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Council since 2012 and became the Chair in 2018. She joined the AOTF Board of Directors in 2011, serving as Vice Chair from 2011–2015, and as Chair in 2016–2017. Dr. Coster is also an AOTF Academy of Research member and served as Chair of the Academy from 2014–2016. She has extensive expertise in the development of assessments and functional outcome measures, including the application of Rasch methodology and computer adaptive testing (CAT). She is co‑author of two internationally recognized standardized functional assessments (Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory–PEDI School Function Assessment–SFA) that are widely used in outcome research. She has been involved in several projects to develop computer-adaptive functional assessments. Dr. Coster has an established record of successful grant funding and research project management including: project director in the current NIDLRR RRTC on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes project director under an NIDLRR RRTC on Rehabilitation and Childhood Trauma PI for an NIDLRR project to develop the School Function Assessment a NIDLRR Switzer Fellowship and grants from AOTF and the March of Dimes Foundation. She has published widely on the application of function and disablement frameworks, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, in child and adult rehabilitation and measure- ment issues in pediatric and adult rehabilitation. As a dedicated occupational therapy professional, Dr. Coster is regarded as an enthusiastic collaborative partner and friend as evidenced by her intentional contributions to mentor colleagues through professional development and career transitions, her exemplary scholarship related to the study and establishment of performance and outcome measures, and her leadership in AOTA/AOTF efforts to advance the profession. Dr. Coster’s participation in the International Conference on Evidence-Based Practice: a collaborative effort between AOTA, AOTF and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2004–2005) highlighted her commitment to our profession’s global partners with shared objectives to support access, dissemination, and trans- lation of knowledge in response to demands for evidence in practice decisions. Dr. Coster’s research career focus on children and families has advanced the development and use of standardized assessments, while her 2008 Eleanor Clarke Slagle lecture eloquently reminded us that “Embracing Ambiguity: Facing the Challenge of Measurement” is part of making authentic, relevant, and evidence-based contributions as a profession. As program faculty and catalyst mentor in the AOTA/AOTF Academic Leadership Mentoring Program (2007–2010), Dr. Coster’s “storytelling” and group-mentor- ship provided the space for future academic leaders to visualize and shape their path for professional growth and leadership journeys. Whether modeling the way for aspiring scholars, holding peer colleagues accountable to best practices in research, or guiding entry-level occupational therapy students in their pro- fessional development, Dr. Coster elevates the credibility of our profession and seeks to secure recognition of the distinct contributions of occupational therapy. Most important, her humility and kindness provide an example for all of us to be good human beings.