 Anne
Marie Witchger Hansen, M.S., OTR/L
Instructor
Department of Occupational Therapy
Education:
Doctoral Student: Interdisciplinary Doctorate
in Professional Educational Leadership
MS Administrative Leadership & Adult Education,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
BS Occupational Therapy Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Courses Taught:
Community & World Health
Spirituality & Occupational Therapy
Socio-cultural Diversity
Clinical Reasoning I & II
Service Learning
Clinical Seminar
Administration
Areas of Academic Specialty:
Community & World Health
Spirituality & Occupation
Grants:
Quality Childcare Grant, PA Department of Education
2000-2002, $184,420
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Allegheny County
(Project Employ) 2001-2002-$80,730 02-03-$48,440
and 03-04-$48,440
Welfare to Work, Project Employ, 2003, $15,000
HUD, Project Employ, 2003, $ 7,743
Research Area:
Spirituality
Service Learning
Community-university partnerships
Professional Presentations:
(most recent)
4/02 “Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment
in a Complex World” by Daloz, Keen, Keen &
Parks, co-presented with Dr. Maureen O'Brien.
Book Study for the Center for Teaching Excellence,
Duquesne University.
4/02 “Occupational Therapy Community Partnerships”, Panel presentation at Annual Conference for
COPC (Office of Community Partnerships for HUD)
Pittsburgh, PA.
6/02 "Assessing the Needs of Physically Challenged
Children in Rural Tanzania" presentation
at World Federation of Occupational Therapy, Stockholm
Sweden.
6/02 "Cross Cultural Student Partnerships
To Enhance Professional Development" Poster
Presentation at World Federation of Occupational
Therapy, Stockholm Sweden.
10/02 “Community-based Occupational Therapy Practice
Scholar Initiatives” Professional Workshop: Duquesne
Rangos School of Health Sciences Tenth Anniversary
celebration.
10/02 “Health & Wellness for the Incarcerated
Population” Presentation for Southwest Pennsylvania
Reentry Workshop, Goodwill Industries, Pittsburgh, PA.
05/03 “Partnerships for Health, Education, Research
& Service: A Community-University Conversation”
organized and facilitated presentations attended
by over 25 faculty and 20 community agency directors,
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
06/03 “Creating Partnerships for Community Practice”
Co-presented workshop for American Occupational
Therapy Association annual conference, Washington, D. C.
10/03 “Transition into Community Practice: Seven
Simple Steps” Presented at 2003 annual Pennsylvania
Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Pittsburgh
, PA.
10/03 “Spirituality: What is old is new again”
Presented at 2003 annual Pennsylvania Occupational
Therapy Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
10/03 “A Collaborative Approach: Providing Occupational
Therapy to Homeless Individuals” Presented at
2003 annual Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy
Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Awards and Accomplishments:
Creative Teaching Award, 2000, Rangos School of
Health Science, Duquesne University
Community Service Award, 1999, Rangos School of
Health Science, Duquesne University
Professional Narrative:
Anne Marie Witchger Hansen currently holds a full
time faculty position in the Department of Occupational
Therapy at Duquesne University . She teaches Community
& World Health, Spirituality & Occupational
Therapy, clinical reasoning & clinical seminar,
service learning and administration. Anne Marie
is also the coordinator of Practice Scholar Program
creating learning and research environments for
students and faculty to meet curriculum goals
for students while also meeting community-identified
needs of vulnerable populations in the community.
These community-university partnerships are initiated
to address unmet needs of the populations they
serve. Anne Marie also writes grants and seeks
funding and personnel to support these projects.
In 2000, Anne Marie developed the first Practice
Scholar partnership with the YMCA of Pittsburgh
securing an 18-month $180,000.00 federal grant.
This grant funded a partnership with the YMCA
of Pittsburgh to hire two Occupational Therapists
to serve at risk children, 0-5 years old, at three
YCARE day care sites. She currently oversees four
Occupational Therapy Practice Scholars who are
serving inmates at the Allegheny County Jail and
men and women who are homeless at Bethlehem Haven.
Anne Marie has secured over $600,000.00 in grants
thus far to support these programs that began
in January 2001.
Anne Marie has extensive experience in developing,
expanding and managing Occupational Therapy hospital-based
and community-based services having worked as
a supervisor of Occupational Therapy departments
in several acute care hospitals before becoming
a member of the faculty at Duquesne University
. In the early 1980's Anne Marie worked in Tanzania
, East Africa for three years as a Spiritan Lay
Missionary coordinating the Medical Board for
the Diocese of Arusha and working with a priest/pilot
to start the Flying Medical Service. She continues
her commitment to the missionary work of the church
as a Lay Spiritan locally and internationally
by organizing and leading Health Care Mission
trips to Tanzania for health sciences students.
Anne Marie's research interests include exploring
the characteristics of effective community/university
partnerships and service-learning partnerships,
service learning and social justice, spirituality
and occupational therapy and the practice of occupational
therapy in developing countries, particularly
Tanzania.
Anne Marie has also been a peace educator for
over 15 years, giving peace and non-violence training
workshops for teachers, administrators, families
and high school and college students. She is as
a member of the national TAPS (Teens Acting for
Peace) training team for the Parenting for Peace
& Justice Network and Families Against Violence
Advocacy Network, using a “training of the trainers”
model. Anne Marie has written articles on parenting
and peace education including several chapters
in “Just Family Nights: Activities to keep you
family together in a world of falling apart” and
authored “Kids Creating Circles of Peace,” a workbook
for children.
Phone: 412.396.5451
E-mail: hansen@duq.edu |
