Emily Meise, MS OTR/L, CLT, CBIS, CSRS

Occupational Therapist
Gaylord Hospital

Emily Meise, MS, OTR/L, CLT, CBIS, CSRS, is a Level IIl Inpatient Occupational Therapist at Gaylord Specialty Healthcare since 2012. Meise earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Science and her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy both at American International College. She has been an Occupational Therapist for 15 years working in acute care, outpatient and long term acute care settings, and is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association. Along with her research studies, Emily has clinical expertise in the areas of Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Medically Complex patient populations. She is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist and a Certified Stroke Rehabilitation Specialist. Emily and the research team within the Milne Institute have most recently been working on the creation, validity and reliability testing of a novel function based cognitive screen named the Gaylord Occupational Therapy Cognitive Screen also known as the GOT-Cog. Emily has served as a co-investigator for a research study investigating the effectiveness of a balance perturbation system in the inpatient stroke population. Her ongoing research study is in the area of visual field expansion interventions after acute neurological injury.

Poster(s):

• Effectiveness of the Bioness Integrated Therapy System® for Visual Field Deficits Following Acute Neurological Events in an LTACH Setting: A Quasi-randomized Controlled Trial
  Monday, October 27, 2025

  8:45 PM - 9:00 PM  

• Robotic-assisted Therapy vs. Standard Care in Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation: A Multisite Randomized Trial