Niccole Rowe has been named the national winner of an award naming her as an emerging leader in occupational therapy assistant programs.
Nov. 13, 2019
By Bob Fowler
Roane State staff writer
For the second time in two months, a Roane State adjunct instructor has won national recognition for her work in occupational therapy and healthcare.
In late October, Niccole Rowe was notified she’d been chosen to receive the Gary Kielhofner Emerging Leader Award from the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. The award recognizes an occupational therapy practitioner who has demonstrated emerging leadership or extraordinary service in their OT career.
Rowe in September won the grand prize in an essay she wrote about chronic pain in the PAINWeek National Conference, held in Las Vegas.
That conference is for healthcare practitioners interested in learning more about the reasons people suffer from various pains. Rowe’s essay discussed the stigma surrounding chronic pain because it’s a condition that can’t be seen.
Rowe has been invited to accept the Emerging Leader Award during a ceremony in March 2020 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Rowe, a Knoxville resident, has been a Roane State adjunct in the Occupational Therapy Assistant program for six years and teaches two online courses. She graduated from Roane State’s OTA program in 2012 and works at Pain Consultants of East Tennessee in Knoxville. She is also a founding partner of Aspire OT, a company that provides continuing education courses for occupational therapy practitioners.
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