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Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences Faculty Spotlight
Wendy Stav
Wendy Stav is a faculty member in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. Her expertise in the area of driving and community mobility has been acknowledged by her own professional organization, as well as other disciplines and government agencies.
Stav has been instrumental in writing the official statement and views on the practice area of driving and community mobility. Some of these guiding documents include the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Driving and Community Mobility for Older Adults (second edition) and the United States Department of Defense’s Summary of Driving Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical Recommendations.
Some of Stav’s contributions to the practice area are in the form of systematic reviews of the existing literature. These reviews were funded by the United States Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and help to define the practice standard.
The reviews were disseminated in the form of publications in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy. Additionally, one review was published as the book Driver Fitness Medical Guidelines by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administration and was distributed to every driver-licensing agency in the country. Stav also shared her expertise about driving and community mobility within her discipline through the authorship of eight book chapters.
In addition to engagement with her own research, Stav engages in scholarship through the review of research conducted by others. Her expertise in research methodologies and scholarly writing has led to her role in reviewing manuscripts for publication in various journals. She also holds editorial-board appointments with peer-reviewed journals that include the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy International, the Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, and Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics.
Additionally, Stav is a reviewer for OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, the British Journal of Occupational Therapy, and the Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. She was also a guest editor for a 2015 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
While Stav enjoys designing and executing her own research studies, she has a particular interest in mentoring the scholarly activity of others, including professional-level students, doctoral students, and faculty peers throughout the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences.
