Pamela Block, PhD
Researcher

Pamela Block, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Occupational Therapy Program
Stony Brook University
(631)
444-3197
Pamela.Block@StonyBrook.edu
Research & Scholary Activities
Dr. Block is a cultural
anthropologist, disability studies scholar, and a
community-based participatory researcher located in the Stony
Brook University School of Health Technology and Management
Occupational Therapy Program. She has been collaborating with
the National Pediatric MS Center since 2004 on a variety of
research and program development initiatives, including the Teen
Adventure Retreat, to improve quality of life for youth with MS
and their families. Her research objectives include:
-
build the capacity of youth with
MS to participate in peer support and mentoring through a
recreational retreat programs,
-
build the capacity of youth with
MS who have reached transition age and a preparing to move
from high school to vocational training, or work and
-
build the capacity of the
National Pediatric MS Center and other Pediatric MS Centers
in the United States and Canada to engage in community-based
participatory strategies for research, program development
and treatment.
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