Professor Fisher is a University Distinguished Professor Emerita at Colorado State University, USA and Professor Emerita at Umeå University, Sweden. Professor Fisher’s more than 50 years of experience as an occupational therapist, occupational scientist, and educator has inspired her to develop innovative assessments of quality of occupational performance and the Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model (OTIPM). Most recently she co-authored the book, Powerful Practice: A Model for Authentic Occupational Therapy. The OTIPM and this book emerged as a solution to a common challenge — how to harness the full power of occupation in practice, education, and research. In her lecture, Professor Fisher will present how and why she developed the OTIPM, and how to use it is practice.

Title of the presentation: “Creating and Using a Model to Promote Occupation-centered Practice”.

Catana Brown PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA is a Professor Emerita for Midwestern University’s Occupational Therapy Program. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy in 1981 at Colorado State University, an Advanced Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy from New York University in 1994 and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in measurement and statistics from the University of Kansas in 1999. Her practice has focused on mental health. Dr. Brown began teaching in 1991, and previous faculty positions include the University of Kansas Medical Center and Touro University Nevada. As a researcher she has received grants from the National Institute of Disability Research and Rehabilitation and the National Institute of Mental Health. She is a co-author with Winnie Dunn of the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile. She is also author of The Evidence-Based Practitioner and with Virginia Stoffel and Jaime Munoz, Occupational Therapy for Mental Health and most recently the 14th Edition of Willard and Spackman’s Occupational Therapy with Glen Gillen. Her research has focused on sensory processing, cognition, wellness, and community living for individuals with serious mental illness. She developed NEW-R a weight loss program for individuals with serious mental illness in collaboration with the Center for Psychiatric Research at the University of Illinois – Chicago and this intervention has been adopted at numerous community mental health centers. Her current research with Winnie Dunn involves the development of a measure of interoception to compliment the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile.

Title of the presentation: “The Sensory Profile Interoception scale: The Intersection of Participation and Body Awareness”

Introducing Dr. Aaron Eakman, an Associate Professor and a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association (FAOTA). Dr. Eakman is a distinguished researcher in the field of occupational science, holding a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

His research focuses on two key areas: the role of occupational therapy in promoting sleep health, and the development of instruments to measure the impact of engagement in meaningful activities on health and well-being. He is a prolific author, known for his work developing the “Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey” (EMAS), a tool that has since been adapted internationally.

His work has been recognized with important awards, including the prestigious Fulbright US Scholar Award. At the 3rd InTeO International Conference, he will share some of his valuable experience in the field.

Title of the presentation: “Engagement in Occupation and “Well-Beingness”.

Physiotherapist. She holds a PhD in Health Sciences Research. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Soria (University of Valladolid). She is also one of the coordinators of the COSMIN Group for the Study of Measurement Properties in Spanish.

Title of the presentation: “Creating patient-reported measurement instruments: using the COSMIN methodology”.

MJ Forjaz, PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Texas, is a research scientist at the National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Health Institute. Her research focuses on scale validation and healthy aging. She is the PI of the RICAPPS group and president of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology.

Title of the presentation: “Do you know what Rasch analysis is?: Applications in occupational therapy”.