UPMC Rehabilitation Institute Low Vision Team Leader
UPMC Vision and Rehabilitation Institute
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Holly Stants, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, CLVT is an award-winning occupational therapist, author, project manager with expertise in functional outcomes measurement, quality improvement and low vision intervention for people with blindness and low vision and other comorbid conditions. She is the Low Vision Rehab Team Leader in UPMC Rehabilitation Institute; working with the low vision rehab team at UPMC Vision Institute. She involves herself in special projects in UPMC to develop training and competency programs to enlarge low vision rehabilitation care across facilities and in Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association to propose guidelines for occupational therapy and low vision rehabilitation in PA. With her expertise in low vision rehabilitation, she partners with many principal investigators in Pittsburgh Low Vision Research Collaborative and services as an interventionist in research studies involving vision restoration technologies or electronic digital head-mounted magnification systems to improve visual performance or functional vision in participants with moderate to profound vision loss (e.g., end-stage age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa).She also lectures for PITT, Chatham Universities, presents at international conferences and collaborates with ACVREP, POTA, AOTA, ACRM for low vision rehabilitation education.
Vision Loss, Falls Prevention, and Home Safety: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM