Mary Khetani
University of Illinois Chicago

Mary Khetani, ScD, OTR/L (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 in the Department of Occupational Therapy at University of Illinois Chicago and has the privilege of directing 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 students 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.