ACOTUP - Newsletter - Issue 23

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy

2014 Annual Faculty Assembly and Awards Ceremony

n December 4, we held the 2014 OS&OT Annual Fac-

ulty Assembly and Awards Celebration with the theme,

“Leadership: Past, Present, and Future”. Attendees en-

joyed a wonderful time of inspiration, networking, discussion,

celebration and refreshments in the beautiful Great Hall of Hart

House.

Our speaker, Karen Goldenberg, Occupational Therapist

and recipient of the Order of Canada, gave an inspirational

speech on leadership, explaining how she influenced change for

clients and society throughout the many stages of her career. She

then outlined six indispensable qualities of leadership: vision,

drive to excel, innovative thinking, passion and commitment,

communication, and responsibility. Please see Karen’s Power-

Point slides for further details. The time of audience questions

and comments yielded interesting and inspirational discussion.

Mandy Lowe, Status Assistant Professor within the depart-

ment, gave a thoughtful response to Karen’s speech, outlining

where the department is in terms of exploring and teaching lead-

ership competencies within the curriculum. We were challenged

individually and as a profession regarding where we go from

here.

The awards ceremony was a wonderful and exciting time to

recognize the winners of both our Community Partners Awards

and our Core Faculty Awards.

As a new feature this year, we had a display of posters that

our community partners have presented at conferences over the

past two years. It was very interesting to read about research and

program initiatives in which OT’s have been involved!

Thank-you to each one that came to this wonderful event!

We look forward to seeing you and many others next year!

To see a list of all winners, please visit the ACOTUP/ACPUE

website at