Elizabeth D. DeIuliis, OTD, OTR/L, is the Assistant Department Chair, Director of Community & Clinical Education, and Academic Fieldwork Coordinator within the Department of Occupational Therapy, John G. Rangos Sr. School of Health Sciences at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a teaching-scholar, Dr. DeIuliis's teaching philosophy includes the use of a variety of instructional methods to foster self-directed, and active learning of her student cohorts within the adult physical disability curricula such as the flipped classroom model and simulated-learning. She actively participates in the University's Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Committee, focusing on the advance of interprofessional education and practice in the University. Furthermore, Dr. DeIuliis was awarded the 2014 Creative Teaching Award through Duquesne University's Center for Teaching Excellence, the 2015 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2016 recipient of the University's Student Learning Outcome Assessment Award. Dr. DeIuliis has developed a strong passion and connection with the fieldwork education process and has continued to be an advocate for fieldwork education and overall student learning development within the department, school, and occupational therapy profession. Dr. DeIuliis has received a certificate of completion from the AOTA Fieldwork Educator Course, serves on the Greater Pittsburgh Fieldwork Council, and has presented at various conferences on fieldwork education. In addition, Dr. DeIuliis has upheld both clinical and administrative positions within various hospitals within the local Pittsburgh area. Dr. DeIuliis is an active member of the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association, in addition to District II Delegate to the Board, member of the American Occupational Therapy Association, and received an appointment to the NBCOT Certification Examination Validation Committee in 2012. In addition, she maintains clinical practice, at Centers for Rehab Services-UPMC Shadyside Hospital, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her clinical experience is primarily acute-care, hospital-based rehabilitation, and she created an evidenced-based occupational therapy program for individual's status-post a breast-cancer related surgery during her clinical occupational therapy doctorate program from Chatham University.
