Emily Piven
Retired Associate Professor, University of Texas-El Paso Occupational Therapy Program, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Dr. Emily Piven (Formerly Dr. Emily Piven Haltiwanger) is a retired Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy from the University of Texas at El Paso for 10 years. She received her Clinical Doctorate of Occupational Therapy from Creighton University in 2004, Master’s Degree of Health Education from the Medical College of Georgia, and baccalaureate degree in Occupational Therapy from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1974. She is currently active in the World Federation of Occupational Therapists task force for development of an international education course on Disaster Preparedness and Response to train disaster volunteers from the rehabilitation profession. Dr. Piven has published numerous research articles in psychosocial adaptation to diabetes and chronic illness and the intervention model of Neuro-occupation. She serves as Associate Editor of the Occupational Therapy International research journal, and Associate Editor of TANG, the International Journal of Genuine Traditional Medicine, and is on the OMICS international editorial boards, as well as the Open Journal of Depression, the Journal of Clinical Trials, and the open access Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice. She is on the editorial board of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin. In 2011, she was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the El Paso Diabetes Association and Academic Educator of the Year Award by the Texas Occupational Therapy Association. As a clinician, Dr. Piven worked in 23 rehabilitation settings expanding occupational therapy positions in Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina and Georgia. She was also in private practice for 18 years. She has been a pioneer in her profession developing individual and group interventions for management of diabetes for adolescents and elders for prevention of tertiary complications of the disease. She has presented her research in diabetes for the last 13 years at regional, national and international occupational therapy and health education conferences.
Research in diabetes for the last 13 years at regional, national and international occupational therapy and health education conferences.
