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Linda Gabriel, PhD
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Health Policy and Ethics
Assistant Professor and Vice Chair,
Occupational Therapy, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions
PhD, 2001, University of Nebraska Medical Center
MA, 1983, University of Nebraska Omaha
BS, 1973, University of Kansas
Dr. Linda Gabriel
Creighton University Medical Center
School of Pharmacy
Department of Occupational Therapy
Boyne 155
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
(402) 280.5932 tel
lgabriel@creighton.edu
Biography
Dr. Linda Gabriel came to the Occupational Therapy faculty at Creighton University in 1989. She is currently an Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of the department. Her teaching areas included both health care ethics (and ethical reasoning) and pediatric occupational therapy. Dr. Gabriel became a faculty affiliate of the Center for Health Policy and ethics in 2004.
Prior to joining the faculty at Creighton, Dr. Gabriel was the director of occupational therapy at Meyer Children’s Rehabilitation Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She received her bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of Kansas in 1973, her master’s degree in special education form the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1983, and her Ph.D. in medical sciences/pediatrics from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2001.
Dr. Gabriel is active at the national level in professional ethics and is beginning her second three year term as a member of the Ethics Commission of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
Dr. Gabriel’s current areas of interest and scholarship:
- Teaching and learning of ethical reasoning that results in making and defending ethical decisions in the clinical practice of occupational therapy.
- Effects of videotaped standardized clinical simulations on the cognitive and affective learning of ethics.
- The links between cognitive and affective learning.
- Exploration of spiritual self awareness and identity in occupational therapy students in preparation for their role as therapists in a profession that addresses the spiritual needs of clients after illness or injury.
- Is there a relationship between spiritual self awareness/growth in professional school and the ability to make and defend difficult ethical decisions in clinical practice?
- Sustaining the spirit to teach in higher education.
- Racial and cultural competency in the provision of occupational therapy services.
Selected Publications/Presentations:
Chadwick, S., Chaptman, T., Franck, L., Haddad, A., Huggett, K., & Jensen, G. (2006). Affective Development and Student Learning: Uncovering the Evidence. Presentation to the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Washington, DC.
Franck, L. & Mullendore, C. (2006). Facilitating Ethical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy Clinical Education. Workshop at the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC.
Gabriel, L. (2005). Reflections on Spirituality: Implications for Ethics Education. In R. Purtilo, G. Jensen, & C. Royeen (Eds.), Educating for moral action: A sourcebook in health and rehabilitation ethics (pp. 203-214). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.
Lohman, H., Gabriel, L., & Furlong, B. (2004). The Issue Is - The bridge from ethics to public policy: Implications for occupational therapy practitioners. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 58, 109-116.
Gabriel, L. (2002). Everyday Ethics in School Based Occupational and Physical Therapy Practice. Invited Keynote address for two-day conference for school based occupational and physical therapists in Iowa, “Best Practice Put into Action”, Des Moines, Iowa.
Brown, K. and Gabriel, L. (1995). Ethical perspectives on school-based practice. Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 9, 3-15.