MS/OTD Student Profiles

Learn more about our current MS/OTD students and see the completed work of our program alumni.

Amanda Jacobson
- Term: Fall 2025
My OTD focus is Autoimmune Disorders and Mental Health During Pregnancy"
Casey Dugan-Moran
- Term: Fall 2025
Work Affiliation: N/A

OTD Capstone Focus: Autism and Mental Health during Pregnancy.
Cynthia Hsu
- Term: Fall 2025
I am working on the project titled: "How do occupational therapy practitioners determine task complexity in activities of daily living?"
Emilia Lopez
- Term: Fall 2025
Work affiliation: Casa Colina Hospitals and Centers for Healthcare

OTD Capstone Focus: How occupational therapy practitioners assess the complexity of activities of daily living through insights from novice and expert clinicians working with stroke survivors.
Kaitlyn Louie
- Term: Fall 2025
Work Affiliation: Northwell Health

OTD Capstone: Implementation and Effectiveness Measurement of a Standardized Patient Program
Vincent Tripi
- Term: Fall 2025
"Trauma informed Care for Academicians."

"Develop a curriculum on Trauma informed care for Columbia faculty to utilize in their curriculum and measuring the effectiveness of the approach through data collection and analysis."
Allison Pappas
- Term: Fall 2025
Work affiliation: Quad Prep

Capstone focus: effect of a standardized administration manual on inter-rater reliability among occupational therapists using TeleWrite to conduct remote handwriting assessments in pediatric populations