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Dr. Mary Khetani
Scientist

Biography
Mary Khetani, ScD, OTR is a tenured Associate Professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago. She contributes to graduate courses on occupational therapy process, research concepts for evidence-based practice, pediatric processes of care, and rehabilitation science. Dr. Khetani also directs the Children’s Participation in Environment Research Lab (CPERL). CPERL has been continuously funded since 2012 to conduct multi-site and interdisciplinary research that focuses on harnessing technology to develop, validate, and implement innovative tools that can accelerate family-centred and participation-focused pediatric (re)habilitation for individuals, organizations, and service systems. She has benefited from the partnership with CanChild for more than a decade to support research and product development activities, beginning with collaboration on the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM).
Dr. Mary Khetani is currently accepting a PhD student trainee. For more information, please contact her at mkhetani@uic.edu.
Area of Focus
childhood disability, participation, family-centered, environment, young children