Cynthia Abbott-Gaffney, OTD, MA, OTR

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests

Abbott-Gaffney has been an occupational therapy practitioner for 23 years, serving in the roles of clinician, clinical case manager, program developer, clinical administrator, and independent contractor and consultant. In addition to her position at Boston University, she is an assistant professor in the occupational therapy program in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Temple University.  Her research focuses on the use of telehealth for the delivery of occupational therapy services in underserved areas, the use of telehealth to offset OT practitioner shortages globally, and use of assistive technology and telehealth to improve efficiency, efficacy and collaboration in the delivery of OT services.  Primary practice areas include traumatic and acquired brain injury rehabilitation and pediatric community, home and school-based intervention. She has served as a certified brain injury specialist trainer, with certification from the Brain Injury Association of America’s Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists. She has presented at numerous professional conferences on resuming occupations post-acquired brain injury and pediatric school-based intervention. In addition, she holds a post-professional certificate in assistive technology and  serves on the editorial review board of the Open Journal of Occupational Therapy.