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Kathryn Farris, OTR/L

Clinical Education Coordinator
Shepherd Center

Kathryn Farris, OTR/L has been practicing as an Occupational Therapist since 1993, specializing in acquired brain injury. She works at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Her current role as the Clinical Education Coordinator across the brain injury entails professional education development and dissemination, development and management of patient/family education platforms, facilitation of competency-based training for staff, and brain injury program development. She works collaboratively with Shepherd Center’s brain injury leadership team and the community to identify and provide resources to enhance the care of people with brain injuries, facilitate evidence-based standards of care, and to support quality improvement initiatives. She is also a contributing member of several collaborative groups who network across rehabilitation settings in the US in the interest of expanding awareness of innovative programming and clinical care. Kathryn’s career has included being a member of the interdisciplinary rehab team providing bedside care, clinical management of the Occupational Therapy team in ICU & rehabilitation settings, and as the lead and/or participant in numerous program development initiatives to address clinical practice and quality improvement needs. Her clinical specialties include therapeutic management of complex rehab patients from disorders of consciousness to mild traumatic brain injury to stroke; interdisciplinary assessment and treatment of vision and perception; and integration of rehabilitation technologies into rehabilitation programming. Kathryn is active in the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Brain Injury Task Force and has presented regionally and nationally on many brain injury and rehabilitation topics.

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