Assistant Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, United States
Mary Bowman, OTR/L, C/NDT, LSVT-BIG, is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy in the UAB School of Health Professions. She is an occupational therapist with 32 years of experience specializing in neurorehabilitation. In 2002, Mary joined the UAB CI Therapy Research Group with Edward Taub, PhD, where she performed evaluation, testing, intervention, outcome development, and protocol development for multiple Constraint-Induced Therapy research trials. She has applied all forms of upper extremity CI Therapy protocols clinically with adults in the Taub Therapy Clinic and with children in the Pediatric CI Therapy Clinic at Children’s of Alabama. Since its inception in 2005, she has been an instructor for the UAB Training for CI Therapy offered in Birmingham and internationally and she is the Clinical Director and Instructor for the UAB Training for CI Therapy- Online. Mary is the Director of the SHP Neuroplasticity Rehabilitation Program, a faculty practice offering CI Therapy as part of the UAB Neuroplasticity Clinical Lab focusing on education, clinical services, and research for interventions that produce beneficial neuroplastic change. Her research interests include CI Therapy, neuroplasticity-based rehabilitation, and participation /community engagement.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Saturday, November 2, 2024
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM