Episode 188 - Professional Collaboration (OT Edition) w/ Dr. Michael Roberts

Meet Your Podcast Guest

Dr. Michael Roberts began work as an occupational therapist on the Oncology Unit at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in 1994. Since that time, he has worked with adult clients in skilled nursing, home care, long-term care, and long-term acute care hospital settings. He served as the Program Director for the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program at Lasell College, a Clinical Faculty at the Occupational Therapy Program at University of New England, and as the Academic Fieldwork Coordinator at Tufts University’s historic Boston School of Occupational Therapy. Since 2015, Dr. Roberts has been employed at Regis College, as the founding Program Director for the Master’s Degree Program in Occupational Therapy. During Dr. Roberts’s time at Regis, he has led the MSOT program to full accreditation, hired an excellent faculty, presented at state and national OT conferences, and guided several strong cohorts of students to professional success. He has served on national ad-hoc committees on fieldwork evaluation development, and served as the editor of the quarterly for the AOTA Special Interest Section for Education. He has been published in the Canadian Journal of OT, the American Journal of OT, and several OT textbooks. He also serves as a content editor for the Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, and volunteers in his community with the Animal Rescue League and the Dedham Historical Society.