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Holly C. Stants, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, CLVT

UPMC RI Low Vision Team Leader
UPMC Rehabilitation Institute Low Vision Team Leader
Cranberry Township, PA, United States

Holly Stants, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, CLVT is an occupational therapist and clinical interventionist, project manager with expertise in functional outcomes measurement, quality improvement and low vision intervention for people with blindness and low vision and other comorbid conditions. Stants also has extensive experience as an occupational therapy practice leader and quality improvement project leader in the long-term care, inpatient rehabilitation and outpatient settings including the low vision rehabilitation setting.  Stants holds nationally recognized specialty certificates in Low Vision from AOTA (SCLV) and ACVREP (CLVT) as well UAB’s graduate certificate in low vision rehabilitation. 2024 AOTA President’s ASAP award to Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association for collaboration with Dr Stephen Whittaker on hybrid low vision on line and in person education with POTA/AOTA training OT generalists. She is also a recipient of the 2024 POTA Master Clinician Award, University of Pittsburgh's Occupational Therapy Alumni Award of Excellence, 2023 UPMC Community and Ambulatory Service Quality Fair Patient Experience Award for her collaboration and leadership in UPMC Rehabilitation Institute, Vision Institute, Eye and Ear Foundation’s “Promoting Access to Low Vision Equipment: A Pilot Project”, the 2021 UPMC Senior Services Community Provide Services People’s Choice Award for her leadership in the advancement of low vision telerehabilitation, as well as received the POTA Award of Recognition for her work with the PennDOT medical review board on developing the bi-optic driving practice.  She is the Low Vision Rehab Team Leader in UPMC Rehabilitation Institute. With her expertise in low vision rehabilitation, she partners with many principal investigators in Pittsburgh Low Vision Research Collaborative and services as an interventionist in research studies involving vision restoration technologies or electronic digital head-mounted magnification systems to improve visual performance or functional vision in participants with moderate to profound vision loss (e.g., end-stage age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa).

Disclosure(s): Chatham University: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Medbridge Inc: Consultant (Ongoing), Royalties (Ongoing); University of Pittsburgh: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); UPMC Rehabilitation Institute (RI) and UPMC Vision Institute (VI): Employment (full or part time) (Ongoing)

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