Associate Professor
Duquesne University
Dr. Elena Donoso Brown is an occupational therapist and associate professor at Duquesne University. She earned her M.S. in Occupational Therapy from Duquesne University and her Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Sciences from the University of Washington. Her clinical background is with individual post-stroke and traumatic brain injury during the acute phase of recovery in the inpatient rehabilitation setting. She has developed a research agenda around understanding and assessing ways to optimize the implementation of home programs for persons with acquired brain injury to increase adherence. In addition, Dr. Donoso Brown teaches students in the program’s professional and advanced professional phases on evaluation/assessment, biomechanical intervention, and program development. She also mentors students through the research project series and as a doctoral capstone chair.