Plenary Session 5 | Nathalie Barr Award Lecture

Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
Time: 2:45 PM to 3:30 PM
Level: Plenary

  • Embracing our Challenges to Evolve and Elevate our Professional Specialty

    Description

    This talk will examine the challenges of the hand therapy specialty from a professional and personal perspective, and provide focused recommendations for us to achieve a brighter and more sustainable future in a turbulent environment.

    Objectives

    Verbalize personal attributes and clinical strategies to overcome daily challenges of patient care in complex and changing health care involvement

    Understand current trends in hand therapy and verbalize strategies to evolve and strengthen the future of the professional specialty

    Understand the importance of therapists assuming greater leadership roles in a variety of settings

    Speakers
    Gary Solomon, MBA, MS, OTR/L, CHT