Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy
Des Moines University
Kay Rudnitsky, OTD, OTR/L, CLT is an Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Des Moines University (DMU), in Des Moines, IA, where she teaches leadership and management, interprofessional education and collaborative practice, program development, productive aging, and physical rehabilitation topics. Prior to DMU, she was most recently Assistant Director of Inpatient Therapy Services at University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital and Health Sciences System (UI Health) in Chicago, IL. Her clinical work at UI Health primarily related to acute care operations, as well as acute rehab, specialty outpatient, behavioral health, community-based chronic disease self-management workshops, interprofessional and quality improvement projects. Past scholarship and program development has been related to these topics, with a special interest in innovative care models. She graduated from the University of Iowa (BA) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (MS, OTD).