Tara Packham, PhD, OTReg(Ont) is an occupational therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience in hand and upper limb rehabilitation, and an associate professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario Canada. Tara’s program of research focuses on assessing and addressing persistent pain, and continuing to advance the global field of hand rehabilitation. She is passionate about moving evidence into practice and helping therapists to adopt and apply new research to advance clinical care. Tara has published and presented extensively for both hand rehabilitation and pain management audiences on persistent pain conditions impacting the upper extremity. She currently serves on the executive committee of the Special Interest Group for CRPS at the International Association for the Study of Pain, on the editorial board of the Journal of Hand Therapy, and as Editor-in-Chief at Hand Therapy (official journal of the British Association for Hand Therapists and European Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy).
On this episode, we are joined by Tara Packham, an occupational therapist who has worked for many years in upper extremity rehabilitation and is now educating the next generation of occupational therapists. Tara recognizes the impact social media has had on knowledge mobilization and she shares with us how clinicians, researchers and educators are utilizing social media and other digital platforms to educate their colleagues, patients and students.
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