Jennifer Dodson OTD, OTR/L, CHT graduated from Florida International University Occupational Therapy program in 1998. In 2002 she was honored to be chosen as a fellow for the Evelyn Mackin Hand Therapy Fellowship at the Philadelphia Hand Center. She became a Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) in 2004. Jennifer is an active member of the American Society of Hand Therapy and has served on the Education Council. She has been an invited lecturer at state and national conferences around the US and Canada on various upper extremity topics. She has spent most of her career at a level one academic trauma center, serving those that have sustained complex traumatic injuries of the upper extremity. She also enjoys treating athletes of all levels. Her dedication to optimizing care for those that have sustained complex traumatic injuries lead her to devote her doctoral work to this population. She received her Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson University along with an Advanced Practice Certificate in “Teaching in the Digital Age”. Her capstone/fellowship project was research on practice patterns of CHTs when rehabilitating this population to serve as a foundation to future studies. She is currently employed at OrthoCarolina in Charlotte, North Carolina and serves as Clinical Specialist I.

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