Mary Khetani

Mary Khetani, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA (she/her/hers) is a pediatric occupational therapist and rehabilitation scientist who has spent more than a decade growing her academic career at public R1 institutions. Dr. Khetani is currently Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at University of Illinois Chicago and directs the Children’s Participation in Environment Research Lab (CPERL). The CPERL team pursues authentic stakeholder engagement to develop, evaluate, and implement digital health tools for driving family-centered and participation-focused pediatric re/habilitation services. Dr. Khetani, together with her trainees and colleagues, has built an interdisciplinary research portfolio comprised of stakeholder engaged intervention, health services, and implementation research projects. These projects have been sponsored by NIH, AHRQ, NSF, NIDILRR, and AOTF, with an eye towards impact in in service systems like early intervention that she has engaged as practitioner, researcher, and caregiver.