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2017 Induction of ASSBI Fellow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2018

Tamara Ownsworth
Tamara Ownsworth*
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Professor Tamara Ownsworth, Past President, ASSBI Griffith University

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Brain Impairment , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , December 2017 , pp. 332
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Copyright © Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment 2018 

The new Fellow of ASSBI is Professor Jenny Fleming. This award is made in recognition of Jenny's outstanding leadership in the field of brain impairment and the discipline of Occupational therapy.

Jenny has made a significant and longstanding contribution to ASSBI. She became a member of ASSBI in 1992 and has been on the Editorial Board of Brain Impairment since its inception. She became an Associate Editor in 2006, and then Co-Editor in 2015.

Jenny has been on the organising committee of several ASSBI conferences and regularly presents workshops in the professional development program. Her career as an occupational therapist spans three decades. She became a registered OT in 1987 and completed her PhD in 1996. Her research on the assessment and management of self-awareness and client-centred practices in rehabilitation is internationally renowned. She is also great mentor of clinician researchers and students, having supervised over 60 honours and PhD projects. Jenny is the first occupational therapist to become a Fellow of ASSBI.