AHTF Blog
Grant Application Forms For 2018 Are Now Available
AHTF 2018 grant application forms are now available. We are extremely pleased to announce substantial increases for most of our 2018 grants. We look forward to receiving your applications. The American Hand Therapy Foundation (AHTF) has the following grants available:...
AHTF Invited Scholar Lecture
AHTF was thrilled to host our 2017 invited scholar Roy Meals, MD at ASHT’s 40th annual meeting in Anaheim California.
Improve Your Practice’s Website Results Compliments of AHTF
Is your website as up-to-date and effective as it should be? In today’s digital world, people are looking online to find providers, services and answers to their questions. In many cases, they form opinions and connect with organizations based on what they see and...
“Get to know a hand therapy researcher”
Ever wonder who these people are? Why a hand therapist chooses an academic path? Question if partnerships with “academics” will benefit you and your clients (or if they are even connected to the clinical world)? Also wonder about the nature of his or her daily...
2017 Virtual 5k Run/Walk for Hand Therapy Research
Registration for our Second Annual Virtual 5K Run/Walk is now open! Complete a 5K run or walk by the end of Hand Therapy Week (June 11th) to promote AHTF and hand therapy research. Participate in a walk or run at your own pace and location of your choosing. Invite your colleagues, friends and family to join in this fun and meaningful event. Minimum entry fee is $35 per participant, but we also invite you to have others “sponsor” your participation.
Attending the American Occupational Therapy Association Conference?
Join us for our events at the AOTA Conference in Philadelphia featuring: Embrace the Shake at the AOTF Breakfast with a Scholar with Phil Hansen. Phil will speak on his journey as an artist and how a RSI changed his art and his life. Friday March 31, 7 am - 9 am....
Mary Kasch Hand Therapy Certification Scholarship: Doing it Well
Submitted by Brocha Z. Stern, MOT, OTR/L “My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have...
Introducing Our New Director of Grants – Mia Erickson
AHTF is proud to introduce our new Director of Grants - Mia Erickson I would like to say thank you to the AHTF Board for allowing me to have this opportunity to serve. I have been a hand therapist for 20 years working in private practice and higher education. I have...
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