1 Welcome Wendy C. Hildenbrand, PhD, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA President, AOTA Mary C. Lawlor, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA Chair, AOTF Program Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 5:30 pm Order of presentation varies from order of listing. AOTA Awards Wendy C. Hildenbrand, President, AOTA Jaclyn Schwartz, Chairperson, Volunteer Leadership Development Committee AOTA Award of Merit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lindy Boggs Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Award for Excellence in the Advancement of OT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Roster of Fellows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Roster of Honor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Recognition of Achievement Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Outstanding Mentor Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Gary Kielhofner Emerging Leader Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Emerging & Innovative Practice Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 International Service Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Interprofessional Collaboration Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Cordelia Myers AJOT Best Article Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Jeanette Bair Writer’s Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 SIS Quarterly Excellence in Writing Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Choosing Wisely Champion Recognition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Retired Educators Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Service Commendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 AOTA-AOTF Presidents’ Commendation in Honor of Wilma L. West. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 AOTF Awards Mary C. Lawlor, Chair, AOTF Kristie P. Koenig, Vice Chair, AOTF Scott Campbell, CEO, AOTF AOTF Leadership Service Commendation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 AOTF Meritorious Service Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 AOTF Fred Sammons Volunteer Recognition Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 AOTF A. Jean Ayres Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 AOTF Virginia Scardina Award of Excellence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 AOTF Early Career Research Excellence Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 AOTF Mid-Career Research Excellence Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 AOTF Academy of Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Description of Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

2 AOTA Award of Merit Virginia C. Stoffel, PhD, OT, FAOTA University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin Leadership and Development of Mental Health Practice Dr. Virginia “Ginny” Carroll Stoffel, is an outstanding leader and an exemplar for our profession in the area of mental health and substance abuse disorders. She served AOTA in many key roles, including President, Vice President, and currently as AOTA’s Alternate Delegate to the World Federation of Occupational Therapists. Most notably, in enacting the AOTA Centennial Vision, she served a pivotal role as program developer and faculty of AOTA’s Emerging Leaders De- velopment Program and Leadership Development Program for Middle Manag- ers. In both programs she mentored and inspired many future leaders, including current Board members, state association presidents, and chairpersons of AOTA committees and task groups. Building on her doctoral work, Dr. Stoffel presented throughout the U.S. and worldwide to develop servant leaders and promote the concept of “heart-felt” leadership. She exemplifies the belief that leadership occurs in life roles as family and community leader, occupational therapy practitioner, public advocate or as a volunteer within one’s profession. Dr. Stoffel is co-editor of the seminal text Occupational Therapy in Mental Health: A Vision for Participation, published by F.A. Davis. In its second edition, this book reflects a culmination of her practice experience, political advocacy, research, grantsmanship, teaching, and leadership in mental health practice. In her 37th year associated with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she has established a rich legacy. Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award Sharon A. Gutman, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Columbia University New York, New York Advancing the Scholarship of Occupational Therapy Dr. Sharon Gutman is a prolific scholar who has substantially contributed to the occupational therapy literature through a career spanning 28 years that produced 65 peer-reviewed journal articles, 6 books, 12 book chapters, and 24 editorials as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy. Her body of 65 peer-reviewed journal articles has been cited over 1000 times and uniquely addresses interventions with marginalized populations that have not been well examined in the occupational therapy literature—including housing programs for sheltered homeless adults, supportive education and employment for adults with chronic mental illness, and life skills for women who became homeless after domestic violence. Many of these publications are intervention effective- ness studies, and Dr. Gutman has been one of the most contributory scholars to the evidence supporting the profession’s role in mental health practice. Dr. Gutman has also made substantial and innovative contributions to the education of occupational therapists through her six textbooks which are heavily used in occupational therapy programs throughout the country and internationally, and have been translated into several languages. She is perhaps best known for her 6-year editorship of AJOT (2008–2014), through which she significantly increased the journal’s impact factor and Journal Citation Report rank.