AOTF Engage Summit 2026 | Alexandria, Va.

Join us for the next Engage Summit in 2026!

2024 Inaugural Recordings

Engage Summit Keynote with Karriem Watson, DHSc, MS, MPH, Chief Engagement Officer, NIH All of Us Research Program

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Learning Objectives:

• Showcase the depth and breadth of landscape of high-quality community engaged research within occupational therapy.
• Identify and evaluate systematic approaches to CE methodologies to elevate OT-informed community engaged scholarship, include evaluation, measurement, outcomes, and dissemination.
• Build capacity amongst people with lived experience to actively engage in OT-informed community-engaged research as full and equal partners.

Keynote Speakers:

Unveiling the Potential of the NIH All of Us Research Program for Occupational Therapy: A Community-Engaged Approach to Addressing Disability Health Disparities Karriem Watson, DHSc, MS, MPH Chief Engagement Officer, NIH All of Us Research Program	Community Participatory Research and OT: What's in It For Me? Angel Love Miles, PhD

Panels and "World Cafe"

Intentional integration of DEI across all panels and sessions.

All panels will be coordinated by our planning committee, with invited presenters. We will ask all panels to:

• Address engagement of underrepresented and minoritized communities.
• Strategically invite presenters who work with different communities, populations, and in different contexts.
• Prioritize inviting OTs leading in this space, but will invite researchers outside of OT when appropriate.

Future Planning & Follow-up Activity for the Committee

To create a white paper/presenters (OTJR manuscript) to synthesize discussions across world café questions.

2024 Program Committee 
Susan Magasi, PhD, FACRM, University of Illinois Chicago (Co-Chair)
Jessica M. Kramer, PhD, OTR/L, University of Florida (Co-Chair)
Teal Benevides, PhD, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Augusta University
Joy Hammel, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, University of Illinois at Chicago
Roger Ideishi, JD, OT/L, FAOTA, George Washington University
Khalilah R. Johnson, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kristie Patten, PhD, OT/L, FAOTA, New York University
Timothy Reistetter, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, University of Texas, San Antonio

Thank You to Our Sponsor:

The AOTF Engage Summit is made possible through a philanthropic gift from the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT). 

Questions: 

AOTF Conference Inquiries- email Lianna Meyreles: lmeyreles@aotf.org

Thanks to those who submitted Abstracts! (Now Closed)

Awardees were announced August 1, 2024. We value the opportunity to learn together with community partners in the ENGAGE Summit.