Highlights:• Ability to relate and work with clients from different cultures and socio-economic contexts. • Mastered the skill of a true team player over the years through engagement in competitive team sports. • Keen interest in, and ability to formulate innovative ideas regarding the use of technology to empower clients. • Strong reliance on research and evidence based practice.

Skills:passionate, driven, team player, drive to learn, grow, evidence based practioner, cultural knowledge, technology

Goal:• Drive to learn and grow as an occupational therapist through continued professional development, courses, certifications and continued evidence based practice • empowering individuals through identifying individual needs and creating low, medium or high tech technology as needed

Membership:AOTA (American Occupational therapy association) COTA (California Occupational therapy association) AIOTA (All India Occupational Therapy Association)

Certification:NBCOT - OTR

Honor:• Invited member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.(2013) • 1st place for the poster competition on Bio-mimicry and Assistive Technology at the 49th Annual National Conference of All India Occupational Therapists’ Association, Goa.(AIOTA, 2012) • 3rd place in street play on Social Transformation & Occupational Therapy at the 49th Annual National Conference of All India Occupational Therapists’ Association, Goa.(AIOTA, 2012) • 3rd place for the model on Psychosocial Dimensions of Work at the 46th Annual National Conference of All India Occupational Therapists’ Association in Jaipur.(AIOTA, 2009) • Indian National winner in track events (athletics). (2005, 2009)

Manipal University 08/2007 - 02/2012
Manipal, Udupi, Karnataka, India
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Occupational Therapy
•Evaluate clients using standardized and non-standardized assessments; retrieving pertinent information from the data collected, planning client centered short and long term goals using clinical reasoning, and being particularly mindful of the client’s cultural and economic context during therapeutic intervention. • Placement rotations in mental health, child health, neurology as well as orthopedic. • Designing and fabricating splints and assistive devices from thermoplastic as well as metal.

Ushma Sampat Driven and passionate occupational therapist