Charles H. Christiansen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA is Executive Director of The American Occupational Therapy Foundation in Bethesda, Maryland, and Clinical Professor, Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Christiansen is also Principal and Founder, StoryCrafting, Inc, LLC, a private consulting firm for life transitions based in Rochester, Minnesota. As a former senior academic administrator and tenured professor at the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas Medical Branch, and the University of British Columbia, he developed graduate programs and worked on his own research, focusing on patterns of human occupation and their relationship to health, particularly as buffers to create resiliency to stress-related illness and disability. Dr. Christiansen is a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association and a past Vice President and Treasurer of that organization. He is the founding editor of the scientific journal OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, now well into its fourth decade of publication.

Carolyn M. Baum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA is the Elias Michael Director and Professor of Occupational Therapy, Neurology, and Social Work at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Baum has twice served as President of the American Occupational Therapy Association and was President of the American Occupational Therapy Certification Board (now NBCOT). She currently serves as the Chair of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation’s Research Commission and serves on the Executive Board of the Foundation. She has served on the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health and the Institute of Medicine’s Committee to Assess Rehabilitation Science and Engineering Needs. In those capacities, she contributed to reports to Congress. Dr. Baum’s research is on the relationship of occupation and participation in persons with chronic neurological conditions. She is engaged in research to determine effective interventions and continues her work in the measurement of occupational performance. She consistently contributes her work and the work of her mentees and students to scholarly journals and texts. Dr. Baum was inducted into the AOTF Academy of Research in 2006 for her exemplary and distinguished contributions toward the science of occupational therapy.

Julie D. Bass, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA is Professor and past Chair, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was the Founding Director of the Public Health Program at St. Catherine University. Dr. Bass also serves as the Director of Research and Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Occupation and Health at the American Occupational Therapy Foundation. She is an established and well-published scholar who has been a frequent presenter at national and international conferences and an invited member on several AOTA task force committees. Her areas of expertise include population health and health disparities, program development and evaluation, statistics and research methods, educational methods, and emerging areas of practice for occupational therapy. Dr. Bass is a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association.