Occupational Therapy Professional Development Committee (OT PDC)

What is the OT PDC?

The Occupational Therapy Professional Development Committee (OT PDC) is a student-run committee that promotes professionalism and professional development.

What does the OT PDC do?

• Assists with recruitment for the MScOT program
• Organizes Brown Bag Lunches to promote professional diversity and increase knowledge in emerging areas of practice
• Mentors incoming students to the program
• Presents annual OT PDC conference for students and the Alberta occupational therapy community
• Presents Welcome Week activities and orientation
• Organizes Occupational Therapy Month activities
• Promotes OT through activities on campus and in the community
• Runs an Runs an OT Student Blog available on the OTPDC Facebook page
• Hosts the gOT Spirit Challenge to encourage students to enhance public awareness of occupational therapy

How can I find out more?

Visit the OT PDC Facebook page or contact the appropriate committee executive member from the list of executives below.

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Membership

Executive members

This table has headers. The first column is the committee position, the second the name of the person, and the third is their email.

Position	Name	Email
Co-Presidents	Megan LaFrance	mllafran@ualberta.ca
	Phoebe Stobart	pstobart@ualberta.ca
	Taylor Hinton-Turik (Satellite President)	thintont@ualberta.ca
Co-Vice Presidents	Anna Cuff	acuff@ualberta.ca
	Haley McGrath	hrmcgrat@ualberta.ca
Treasurer	Danielle Cossar	cossar@ualberta.ca
Secretary	Alicia Miller	almille1@ualberta.ca
Communications Representative	Chloe MacPherson	cmacpher@ualberta.ca
Spirit Representatives	Alison Benson	aebenson@ualberta.ca
	Jayleen Hills	jthills@ualberta.ca
	Alaa Ibriham (Calgary)	alaa3@ualberta.ca
	Vacant (Augustana)
Calgary Executive	Arushi Dagar	adagar1@ualberta.ca
Augustana Executive	Tatum Enns	tgenns@ualberta.ca
SAOT Representative	Tchiana Augustin	taugusti@ualberta.ca
CAOT Representative	Tina Do	tdo2@ualberta.ca
CAOT-SK Representative	Matthew Dyck	mjdyck2@ualberta.ca
CAOT-BC Representative	Vanessa Petch	vpecht@ulberta.ca
RMSA Advisors	Kalki Ortiz (Edmonton)	kalki@ualberta.ca
	Tchiana Augustin (Calgary)	taugusti@ualberta.ca
	Peyton Harty (Augustana)	pnharty@ualberta.ca
Edmonton Y2 Class Rep	Andrea Newman	alnewman@ualberta.ca
Y1 Class Reps - OTPDC	Rachel Chandra (Edmonton)	rnchandr@ualberta.ca
	Madeline Hingston (Edmonton)	mhingsto@ualberta.ca
	Emma Stadnick (Augustana)	estadnic@ualberta.ca
	Miyah Kailey (Calgary)	miyah1@ualberta.ca
Y1 RMSA Reps	Sydney Sanders (Edmonton)	shsander@ualberta.ca
	Kalki Ortiz (Edmonton)	kalki@ualberta.ca
	Tchiana Augustin (Calgary)	taugusti@ualberta.ca
	Tatum Enns (Augustana)	tgenns@ualberta.ca