Jeannette Murphy
BS ’75

About Jeannette Murphy

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Job title: Occupational Therapist

Degrees: BS ’75

Career stage: retired

State of practice: Spokane, WA

Lived career experiences/transitions:

  • Changing specialty
  • Starting a family while maintaining a full-time practice
  • Retiring from practice
  • Non-clinical careers
  • Work/Life balance

Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 1975

Specialty/subspecialty: Ergonomics

Teaching roles:  Mentor for applicants applying for certification with the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE); adjunct instructor at Spokane Falls Community College for the OTA program teaching Body Mechanics and Safe Lifting; frequent presenter at conferences and inservices on Ergonomics, Body Mechanics and Safe Patient Handling at national, state and local levels; and coach for Matters of Balance Fall Prevention Program with Aging and Long Term Care of Eastern Washington.

Research or other professional interests: 2016 Distinguished OT Alumni Recipients for contributions made to the profession in Safe Patient Handling

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