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Marianne H. Mortera, PhD, OTR/L

Associate Professor
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brooklyn, NY, United States

Marianne H. Mortera, PhD, OTR/L is an Associate Professor in the Occupational Therapy Doctorate at Rutgers University. Dr. Mortera has been an occupational therapist since 1987. Her initial clinical expertise in neurological, cognitive, acquired brain injury, and spinal cord injury rehabilitation started in the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Center. Her research has focused on the return to productivity in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the development and initial testing of the Mortera Cognitive Screening Measure and the Cognitive Screen for Grooming. Her current research includes reviews of pharmacological interventions in TBI and functional outcomes, the examination of the effectiveness of complementary integrative medicine in TBI rehabilitation, and validity standards in rehabilitation research and practice. Dr. Mortera has written several book chapters and journal articles on brain injury rehabilitation, cognitive assessment, and occupational therapy interventions. She has also recently co-authored the textbook, Quick reference neuroscience for rehabilitation professionals: The essential neurologic principles underlying rehabilitation practice (2024). For more than 36 years, Dr. Mortera has been an occupational therapy faculty member in entry-level and post-professional educational programs. She has developed and taught more than 45 courses in neuroscience, kinesiology, neurorehabilitation, physical disabilities, cognitive rehabilitation, medical conditions, clinical practice guidelines, theory, research methods, measurement, and applied scientific inquiry. She is a continuing education provider and has presented nationally and internationally on neuroscience underlying occupational therapy interventions, cognitive assessment, and treatment effectiveness and study quality in brain injury rehabilitation research.

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