Roxie M. Black, Director and Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy
Boston University, B.S. in Occupational Therapy; University of Southern Maine, M.S. in Adult Education; Lesley University, Ph.D. in Educational Studies.

Professor Black has been the director of the MOT program since October, 1997. She has been an OT Educator for twenty years, holding positions of clinical director, level I fieldwork coordinator, tenured associate professor, assistant department chair, and acting department chair at the University of New England, prior to coming to USM. Professor Black's clinical experience includes twenty-five years of practice in pediatrics, working with children from infancy through adolescence. She taught the TOTEMS course in Maine and was SCSIT certified.

At Lewiston/Auburn College Black teaches courses in Research, Communications for Health Professionals, Social Issues and Ethics, and Occupation and Clinical Reasoning. Since October 1997, she has worked with the OT faculty in an extensive curricular revision which focuses on clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills of students. The new curriculum was implemented in the Fall of 1999, and recognized for its "cutting edge" quality by the Accreditation Council of O.T. Educators.

Her PhD. in educational studies, focused on multicultural curricula for health professions.  Her dissertation research examines the meaning of cultural competence. She has made numerous international, national and local presentations, has published on issues of diversity, and is the  co-author of a book entitled "Cultural Competency for Health Professionals". Professor Black had the honor of being inducted into the prestigious Roster of Fellows of the American Occupational Therapy Association at the AOTA National Conference in Miami, 2002.

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