Jan Stube, PhD ‘00 (Teaching and Learning Research Methodologies; Master Science in Education '89), associate professor of occupational therapy, Grand Forks, has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the editorial review board of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT).  She was selected to serve on the board by the AJOT editor-in-chief, Sharon Gutman, PhD, of Columbia University, New York.

The official journal of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc., the AJOT is peer-reviewed and published six times annually, reaching more than 40,000 occupational therapy (OT) practitioners.  It covers theory-based research, applied research and reviews about clinical efficacy, OT education and professional trends.

“It is truly rare for a North Dakotan to serve on this board and is a great professional honor,” says Janet Jedlicka, PhD (BSOT '82), chair and associate professor of occupational therapy, Grand Forks.

Jan Stube, PhD, right, teaches OT students how to retrain their future patients to perform the tasks of daily living, such as baking.

“This appointment is an opportunity for contribution of a voice and perspective from North Dakota to shape occupational therapy’s growing evidence-based future in health care delivery as well as visibility for the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences.”

Stube’s primary responsibility is to provide peer review of up to four manuscripts per year “which fall into my clinical research and teaching areas of expertise,” she says. She is among 65 AJOT editorial review board members from across the nation.

Editorial review board selection criteria include: interest in voluntarily contributing expertise to build the profession’s evidence base, as well as possessing educational preparation, clinical practice and research skills, including experience in both quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches to effectiveness studies.