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PAMELA BLOCK

SHTM, HSC, L-*, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8602 USA abpme6@r.postjobfree.com 631-***-****

www.projectshakeitup.org

EDUCATION

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, BROWN UNIVERSITY, 1999-2001

PH.D., CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, DUKE UNIVERSITY 1997

Field of Specialization: Disability Studies

Doctoral Dissertation: Biology, Culture and Cognitive Disability: Twentieth Century

Professional Discourse in Brazil and the United States

B.A., LIBERAL ARTS, HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, 1990

Senior Thesis: Motherhood and Power in Women Strike for Peace.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Associate Dean of Research, School of Health Technology & Management,

Stony Brook University 4-12-Present

Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy Program 1/10-Present

Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies 5/03-Present

Affiliated Faculty, W omen s and Gender Studies Program 11/08-Present

Affiliated Faculty Center for Medical Humanities 5/09-Present

Associate Professor (Clinical) 9/02-12/09

Assistant Professor (Research & Adjunct)Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies,

Dept. of Community Health, Brown University

Assistant Professor (Adjunct) Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of

Rhode Island 1/00-6/03

Associate Research Scientist, Decision Sciences Institute/PIRE 1/02-4/03

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Dept. of

Community Health, Brown University 9/99-12/01

Postdoctoral Research Associate and Project Director, Dept. of Disabilit y and Human

Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, Capacity Building for the ADA in Minority

Communities 9/98-8/99

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Historical and participatory research on disability, socio-environmental barriers,

capacity building, and health promotion

Autistic self advocacy in Brazil and the United States

Biosociality and Disability Identity

Intersections of gender, sexuality, race, poverty, and disability

Disability culture and cultural perceptions of disability; International disab ility-

rights movements

Intellectual disability, eugenics and involuntary sterilization in Brazil and the United

States

PENDING GRANT SUBMISSIONS

Principal Investigator, Translational Research in Disability Studies and the Health Sciences.

National Institute of Health, National Institute on Children s Health and Disability. Submitted

December 2011 ($100,000)

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RECENT FUNDED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS

Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, Awarded on March 18, 2009

Principal Investigator, Transition Issues for Youth with Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis ($44,000).

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, January-December 2008 (10% FTE)

Principal Investigator, Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis, Community and Capacity Building, SHTM

Mini-Grant ($8,000)

"Humanization of Health Care" Award of Recognition for Efforts and Achievements, Brazilian

Ministry of Health, October 2007

Mentor for Play Fit Stay Fit Lance Armstrong Foundation Community Program July 2006 -

July 2007 (5% salary offset as an in-kind contribution)

Hope Award 2006 Annual Meeting for the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Clinics.

Scottsdale, Arizona. (for poster by Milazzo, M., Block, P., MacAllister, W., Bellman, A., Slota,

N., and Krupp, L. (2006). A Weekend Retreat for Teens with Multiple Sclerosis.)

Rehabilitation Liaison, Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence, National Multiple

Sclerosis Society, January 2006-December 2010

Co-Investigator, Organizational Factors in Drug Abuse Treatment Outcomes ($2,000,000)

National Institute on Drug Abuse, R01, July 2004 June 2010. (annual subcontracts

for 6 years: $173,185 total subcontract taking into account a 20%

NIH-mandated budget cut)

Consultant: Tobacco Use Among Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, National Multiple

Sclerosis Society, Pilot Research Award, April 2004-April 2005 ($1,000).

Principal Investigator, Assessing Attitudinal and Structural Barriers to Physical and

Recreation Activities, Multiple Sclerosis Society Pilot Research Award, September 2003

May 2005. ($44,000)

Principal Investigator, Shake It Up!: Health Promotion and Capacity Building for Persons with

Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries and Related Neuromuscular Disabilities, Department of

Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Rese arch Field Initiated

Research Award CFDA Program 84.133, PR/Award No: H133G010094, January 2002 -

December 2005 ($450,000)

RECENT PROJECTS

EMPOWER SPINAL CORD INJURY (EMPOWERSCI)

I am working with a community nonprofit EmpowerSCI to help them establish a summer

program for individuals with recent SCI on the Stony Brook campus. This effort involves

collaboration with many SHTM programs: occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic

training, adaptive aquatics, physician assistants and health sciences pr ograms. This program

will be piloted in July 2012. This model is related to the research and publications from my

NIDRR-funded Project Shake It Up www.projectshakeitup.org

AUTISM, COMMUNICATION & FAMILY AND AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY IN THE US AND BRAZIL

W orking with my sister Hope Block, who is autistic, m y mother, Barbara Kilcup and, in recent

years, Hope s fianc Jacob Pratt and other collaborators, we write about our experiences with

autism and each other. We have presented papers at several conferences including the

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Society for Disability Studies, TASH, the American Anthropological Association, the Society

for Applied Anthropology and at the first Brazilian disability studies conference in Rio de

Janeiro. Several of us have coauthored a 2012 book chapter: Sexuality, Dating and Intimacy.

IN Politics of Occupation-Centered Practice: Reflections on Occupational Engagement

Across Cultures. I am also interested in historical formation of autism as a social and

diagnostic identity, autistic self advocacy, and neurodiversity in Brazil and the United States.

OCCUPYING DISABILITY

I am working with co-editors Devva Kasnitz, Nick Pollard, Akemi Nishida to create an edited

book with politically engaged critical approaches to disability that intersect occupational

therapy, disability studies and anthropology. International movements claim disability as a

collective identity rather than a medical category and recognize the political and economic

dimensions of disability inequality as it intersects with other forms of inequality. Moving well

beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability, this book will engage clinicians, social

scientists, activists and artists in dialogues about disability as a theoretical construct and lived

experience. The concept of occupation is intentionally a moving target. Some authors will

discuss occupying spaces as a form of protest or, alternatively, protesting against territorial

occupations. Others will discuss occupations as framed or problematized within the fields of

occupational therapy and occupational science and anthropology as engagement in

meaningful activities.

SPEECH IMPAIRMENT, DISABILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

I am working with Devva Kasnitz to write a book that provides a new approach to speech

impairment and alternative and augmentative communication strategies. Current literature

considers speech impairment in terms of treatment categories within individual diagnoses.

W e propose that speech impairment is a shared social experience that is cross -disability. The

goal of this piece is to introduce the readers to some of the lived experience of people with

different speech and the crossroads at which they stand between exercising rights to

accommodation and access to social participation and citizenship. Few issues hit deepe r

than communication disability. Focusing on speech raises questions about language.

Focusing on language raises questions about cognition. Focusing on cognition raises

questions about competency and links to be derogatory social stereotypes. An introduction to

this approach is available in Kasnitz and Block (2012) Participation, Time, Effort, and Speech

Disability Justice. IN Politics of Occupation-Centered Practice: Reflections on Occupational

Engagement Across Cultures.

PEDIATRIC MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

This research used the concept of biosociality and a disability studies framework of

empowerment to present and analyze examples of community formation and participation for

youth with pediatric multiple sclerosis. Building upon social and minority group theo ries, this

research moved beyond social critique to develop and implement strategies for community

development, individual and group empowerment. See 2011 article: Building Pediatric MS

Community. Research in Social Science and Disability.6:85-112, and the film Growing Up

with MS (http://vimeo.com/10062359).

DISABILITY STUDIES

I was on the board of the Society for Disability Studies from 2007-2011, serving as vice

president in 2008-2009 and President in 2009-2010. I helped design the Stony Brook

University School of Health Technology and Management has Disability Studies

Concentration in the Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences and the Ph.D. program in Health

and Rehabilitation Sciences. I have consulted on program development and co-organized

disability studies conferences for programs in Brazil and France and am working to develop

new programs and a Center for Disability Studies at Stony Brook University.

DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH & EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITIES IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

Representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Health visited Stony Brook University in

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November 2004, October 2007, November 2009 and lectured about "Humanization of Health

Care in Brazil, and brought an exhibition on Brazilian psychiatric survivors living in the

community. In return, I visited Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in June 2010, and the Institute of

Social Medicine at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in May 2011, where I co-organized

the first Brazilian disability studies symposium. Brazilian colleagues from the Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro participated in the 2012 Stony Brook University Festival of the

Moving Body.

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Block, P., Rodriguez, E., Milazzo, M., MacAllister, W., Krupp, L. Nis hida, A., Slota, N.,

Broughton, A., Keys, C.B., (2011). Building Pediatric MS Community. Research in Social

Science and Disability.6:85-112

Block, P., Vanner, E., Keys, C. B., Rimmer, J., Skeels, S. (2010). Project Shake-It-Up!: A

Disability Studies Framework of Empowerment for Capacity Building and Health Promotion.

Disability & Rehabilitation, 32(9):741-54

MacAllister, W.S., Christodoulou, C., Troxell, R., Milazzo, M., Block, P., Preston, T.E.,

Bender, H.A., Belman, A., & Krupp, L.B. (2009). Fatigue and Quality of Life in Pediatric

Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis.15:1502-8.

Vanner, E.A., Block, P., Christodoulou, C.C. Horowitz, B.P., & Krupp, L.B. (2008) A

Pilot Study Exploring Quality of Life and Barriers to Physical and Leisure/Recreation

Activity in Persons with Moderate to Severe Multiple Sclerosis. Disability and Health

Journal, 1:58-65.

Block, P. (2007). Institutional Utopias, Eugenics, and Intellectual Disability in Brazil.

History and Anthropology, 18(2):177-196.

Block, P., Skeels, S., & Keys CB (2006). Participatory intervention research with a

disability community: A practical guide to practice. International Journal of Disability,

Community & Rehabilitation. 5(1).

Friend, K., Mernoff, S., Block, P., Reeve G, Levy D. T. (2006). Smoking Rates and

Obstacles to Quitting Among Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis. Disability &

Rehabilitation. 28(18): 1135-1141.

Block, P., Ricafrente-Biazon, M., Russo, A., Chu, K.Y., Sud, S., Koerner, L., Vittoria, K.,

Langrover, A., Olowu, T. (2005). Introducing disability studies to occupational therapy

students. Special Issue on Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies, American

Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(4):554-60.

Block, P., Skeels, S., Keys, CB & Rimmer J. (2005). Shake-It-Up: Health promotion and

capacity building for people with Spinal Cord Injuries and related neurological

disabilities. Disability and Rehabilitation. 27(4): 185-90. February 18, 2005.

Block, P. (2004). Disability studies in the belly of the beast. Disability Studies Quarterly.

24(4). Special Issue on Disability Studies in the Education of Public Health and Health

Professionals: Can It Work for All Involved?

Block, P. (2002). Sexuality, parenthood, and cognitive disability in Brazil. Sexuality and

Disability, 20(1): 7-28.

Block, P. (2002). Introduction to the Special Issue: Parents with disabilities. Sexuality and

Disability, 20(1):3-5.

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Block, P., Bock, B., Becker, B., & Everhart, S. (2001). Alcohol and substance use by

adolescents and young adults with recent spinal c ord and traumatic brain injuries. Disability

Studies Quarterly. 21(2).

Block, P., Balcazar, B., & Keys, C. (2001) From Pathology to Power: Rethinking Race,

Poverty and Disability. Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 12(1):18-27.

Block, P. (2000). Sexuality, Fertility and Danger: Twentieth Century Images of Women

with Cognitive Disabilities. Sexuality and Disability, 18(4): 239-54.

Block, P. (1992). The politics of reproduction in Brazil. In, Proceedings: Engendering

Knowledge/Engendering Power: Feminism in Theory and Practice, Cynthia Baker, Ed.

The Third Annual Women's Studies Graduate Conference, Duke University.

EDITOR-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Patterson, S & Block P. (2011) Introduction. Special Issue about Historical Perspectives on

Disability and Work. Review of Disability Studies. 7(3).

Block, P. (2010) Participant: Neurodiversity and Caregiving: A Roundtable with Parents and

Siblings of Children with Autism (moderator, Ralph James Savarese). Disability Studies

Quarterly 30(1). http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/1061/1236

Block, P. (2009). Commentary: A study of perceived facilitators to physical activity in

neurological conditions. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 16(1):24.

Frank, G., Block, P., and Zemke, R. (2008). Introduction to the Special Issue. Practicing

Anthropology, 30(3):2-5.

Block, P. & Rodriguez E., (2008). Team Building: An Anthropologist, A Cultural

Anthropologist and the Story of a Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Community. Practicing

Anthropology, 30(3):6-9.

Block, P., Balcazar, F., Keys, C. (2002). Race Poverty and Disability: Three Strikes and

You re Out! Or are You? Social Policy. 33(1): 34-8.

Block, P. (1996) Frankenstein moves to Glen Ridge: Sexual violence and 'mental

defect.' Infanto - Revista de Neuropsiquiatria da Inf ncia e Adolesc ncia 4(2):21-5.

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES EDITED

Patterson, S and Block P. (2011) Historical Perspectives on Disability and Work

Review of Disability Studies. 7(3).

Block, P., Frank, G. and Zemke, R. (2008). Anthropology, Occupational Therapy and

Disability Studies: Collaborations and Prospects. Practicing Anthropology, 30(3):1-31.

Block, P. (2002). Parents with disabilities. Sexuality and Disability, 20(1): 1-101 and

20(2)117-23.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Block, P., Cavalcante, F., Medeiros, G., and Antunes, J. (under review) it is possible

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to have a life where it seems that there is only turmoil : Autism family advocacy, self

advocacy and rights in Brazil since 1980. Disability History Reader.

Block, P., Shuttleworth, R. Pratt, J., Block, H., Rammler, L. (2012) Sexuality, Dating and

Intimacy. IN Politics of Occupation-Centered Practice: Reflections on Occupational

Engagement Across Cultures. (Eds. Pollard, N., Sakellariou, D.). Oxford, England:

Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

Kasnitz, D. & Block P. (2012) Participation, Time, Effort, and Speech Disability Justice.

IN Politics of Occupation-Centered Practice: Reflections on Occupational Engagement

Across Cultures. (Eds. Pollard, N., Sakellariou, D.). Oxford, England: Elsevier Churchill

Livingstone.

Lopez, A. and Block, P. (2011) PAR FORE: A Community-based Occupational Therapy

Program. IN Occupational Therapy Without Borders: The Spirit of Survivors, Second

Edition (Eds. Frank Kronenberg, Dikaios Sakellario u and Nicholas Pollard). Oxford,

England: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

Block, P. (2007). Doing cultural anthropology and disability studies in rehabilitation

training and research contexts. IN Anthropology Put to Work. (Eds. Les Field and

Richard Fox). Oxford, UK & Gordonsville, Virginia: Berg Publishers

REPRINTS OF JOURNAL ARTICLES

Block, P., Balcazar, F. & Keys, C. (2006). Race Poverty and Disability: Three Strikes

and You re Out! Or are You? IN Race, Class & Gender: An Anthology, Sixth Edition.

(Eds. Margaret Anderson and Patricia Hill-Collins). Belmont, California: Thomson

W adsworth. pp. 426-32.

Block, P. (2006). Feeble Excuses: Public Representations of Gender, Sexuality &

Disability. IN Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader. (Eds. Mindy Stombler,

Dawn M. Baunach, Elisabeth O. Burgess, et al.). Boston, Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon.

Block, Pamela. (2004). Sexuality, Fertility, and Danger: Twentieth-Century Images of

W omen with Cognitive Disabilities. IN The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns

and Possibilities, (Eds. Spade and Valentine.) Pp 313-323.

Block, P. (2002). Sterilization, Sexual Control, & Intellectual Disability in Brazil. IN Health

of Women with Intellectual Disabilities (Eds. Patricia W alsh, and Tamar Heller) Oxford:

Blackwell Science, pp. 76-89.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

Block, P., Bieler, R. (2005) Solicited Entry. Disability Experience: Brazil. The

Encyclopedia of Disability. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications..

Block, P. (2005) Solicited Entry. Niels E. Bank -Mikkelsen. The Encyclopedia of

Disability. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Block, P., Nelis T. (2005) Solicited Entry. People First. The Encyclopedia of Disability.

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

BOOK REVIEWS

Block, P. (2003). Solicited Book Review. Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue

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on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Gelya Frank. Berkeley:

University of California Press, 2000. ix + 284 pp., photographs, notes, references, index.

American Ethnologist, 30(1): 175-6.

TRANSLATIONS

Rocha L.E. & Seligmann, S. (2002). Health and Work. F.E. Balcazar, M. Montero, and J.R.

Newbrough (eds.), Health Promotion in the Americas: Theories and Practices (Washington,

DC: Pan American Health Organization, 2002).

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Working Papers:

Block, P., Cavalcante, F., Medeiros, G. & Antunes, J. it is possible to have a life

where it seems that there is only turmoil : Autism family advocacy, self advocacy and

rights in Brazil since 1980. Disability History Reader (Editors Susan Burch and Michael

Rembis)

Book Projects:

Block, P., Kasnitz, D., Nishida, A., Pollard N. (proposal under development). Occupying

Disability: Decolonizing, Disability, Community and Justice.

Kasnitz, D., Block, P. (proposal under development). Speech Impairment, Disability and

Social Justice: Anthropology meets disability studies .

RECENT CONFERENCE PANELS & PRESENTATIONS

Block, P. & Friedner, M. (2012). Strategic Essentialism and Authoritative Discourse within

Disability Theory and Disability Activism . Four-session panel. Society for Applied

Anthropology Meetings, Baltimore, MD, March 30-31, 2012.

Block, P. (2012). Biosociality and Disability Identity. Society for Applied Anthropology

Meetings, Baltimore, MD, March 30, 2012.

Block, P. & Kasnitz D. (2011). Disability Studies in North America. Simposio Internacional

Disability Studies. Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro.

May 23, 2011.

Block P., Shuttleworth, R., Block, H., Pratt, J., Rammler, L. (2011) Autism, Dating and

Intimacy. Simposio Internacional Disability Studies. Instituto de Medicina Social,

Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro. May 24, 2011.

Kasnitz, D. and Block, P. (2011) Applied Anthropology's Contribution to Disability Studies and

the Expression of Participation Outcomes: Disability Studies Grapples with How to Describe

Outcomes. Reimagining understandings of quality of life and disability: applied

anthropology s contribution April 2, 2011, Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings,

Seattle, WA.

Block, P. (2010). Anthropology, Disability Studies and Occupational Justice. Intercultural &

Interprofessional Health Promotion Approaches: A North and South American Dialogue on

FIOCRUZ s Integrated Territorial Health Actions International Seminar Organize d at the

Funda o Oswaldo Cruz. June 22, 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Block, P., Milazzo, M., Rodriguez E. (2010) Growing Up with MS Film Presentation. Society

for Disability Studies, Thursday June 3, 2010, Philadelphia, PA.

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Block, P. (2010) Moderator: Health and Occupation Equity. Society for Disability Studies,

Thursday June 3, 2010, Philadelphia, PA.

Block, P. (2010) Moderator: Power, Truth & Trust in Communication Access. Society for

Disability Studies, Friday June 4, 2010, Philadelphia, PA.

Block, P. (2010) Discussant: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with

Disabilities - W hat Does It Mean to Guarantee Freedom of Expression? Society for Disability

Studies, Friday June 4, 2010, Philadelphia, PA.

Block, P. (2010) Moderator: Business Meeting. Society for Disability Studies, Saturday June

5, 2010, Philadelphia, PA.

Block, P. (2010). Addressing Difference through Disability Studies, Anthropology, and

Occupational Studies. Invited Lecture at the University of Cardiff Occupational Ther apy

Program, March 8, 2010. Cardiff, England.

Block, P., Kilcup B. (2010) Autism, Family and Communication, Invited Lecture at the

Catholic University of Leuven Anthropology Department,February 26, 2010, Leuven, Belgium.

Block, P. (2010). Anthropology, Disability Studies and the Study of Occupation. Invited

Lecture at Oxford Brookes University Occupational Therapy Program February 23, 2010,

Oxford, England.University,

Block, P. (2010) Impact and Experience of Disability: Intersections of Gender, Sexuali ty,

Race, Poverty, and Disability. Invited Lecture at Sheffield Hallam University Occupational

Therapy Program, February 5, 2010, Sheffield England.

Block, P. (2010) Meeting at the Intersection: Addressing (gender, racial, ethnic, religious,

sexual) difference through Disability Studies, Anthropology, and Occupational Science.,

Invited Lecture at Brunel University Occupational Therapy Program, February 2, 2010,

London, England.

Perkinson, M. and Block, P. (2009). Teaching health research ethics: Examples from the

U.S. and Guatemala. American Anthropological Association Meetings, December 3, 2009,

Philadelphia, PA.

Block, P. (2009) Bus Rides and Back Rooms: Disability, Family, Meaningful Occupation and

Life Transition, Society for Medical Anthropology Annu al Meetings September 25, 2009, New

Haven CT.

Rodriguez, E., Block, P. (2009) Community Building and Shared Beliefs among Youth with

Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis. Society for Medical Anthropology Annual Meetings September

26, 2009, New Haven CT.

Block, P. Milazzo, M., Rodriguez, E., Nishida, A. (2009) The Discomfort Zone: Collaborative

Disability Studies Research with Clinicians, Activists, and Youth with Multiple Sclerosis.

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Society for Disability Studies Meetings, June 19, Tucson, Arizona.

Kasnitz, D., Seelman, K., Block, P. (2009) Town Hall Meeting: Collaborations between the

Society for Disability Studies and Allied Organizations. Society for Disability Studies

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Meetings, June 19, Tucson, Arizona.

Kasnitz, D. and Block, P. (2009): Discussants: Occupational Therapists Interactions with

Patients and Communities: Bringing Social Sciences, Phenomenology, Narrative Theory and

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Disability Studies to Medical Rehabilitation, Part II. Society for Applied Anthropology

Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 21, 2009

Block, P. and Frank G. (2009). Chairs: Disability, Occupation and Anthropology in Local and

Global Communities. Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico,

March 20, 2009.

Block, P., Block, H., Kilcup, B. (2009). Autism, Family, Meaningful Occupation and Life

Transition. Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 19,

2009.

Rodriguez, E., and Block P. (2009). Empowering Youth with Pediatric MS for Life Transitions

through Play. Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 19,

2009.

Kasnitz, D., Blakeney, A., Block, P., and Gupta, J. (2009). Chairs: Teaching Cultural

Competence around Life-Cycle Transitions: Anthropology, Occupational Science, and

Disability Studies, Part I, Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico,

March 19, 2009.

Kasnitz,D., Rodriguez, E., Paul-Ward, A., Block, P. (2009). Chairs: Teaching Cultural

Competence around Life-Cycle Transitions: Anthropology, Occupational Science, and

Disability Studies, Part II, Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico,

March 19, 2009.

Block, P., Block, H., Kilcup, B. (2008). Autism, Communication, Family & Community.

American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 21, 2008. Sa n Francisco.

Block P. (Chair), Kasnitz, D., & Frank, G. (Organizers). Inclusion of Autism and Disability,

Collaboration with Disability Studies and Occupational Science, and Engagement of Kinship

and Citizenship in Social Justice. American Anthropological Association Meetings, November

21, 2008, San Francisco.

Stout, R., Friend, K., Zywiak, W., Block, P., Lagasse, A., Lawson, C., Shipton-Levy, R.

(2008). Organizational Quality of Drug Abuse Clinics and Client Satisfaction: A Longitudinal

Analysis. Addiction Health Sciences Research Conference, Boston Massachusetts.

McKenna, R., Sniffen, J., Johnson, R., Mancini-Johnson, L., Benz-Scott, L., Block, P.,

Mattera, D., Parker, R.(2008). Play Fit-Stay Fit: A comprehensive community based wellness

program for childhood survivors of cancer. American Public Health Association, October

2008.

Block, P., Block, H. & Kilcup, B. (2008). Autism, Communication, and Family. Society for

Disability Studies Meetings, New York City, June 20, 2008.

Block, P. and Frank, G. (2008). Transcending Spheres: Disability Studies, Occupational

Therapy and Anthropology Go Public. 4-session Panel at Society for Applied Anthropology

Meetings, Memphis Tennessee, March 29, 2008.

Block, P., Friend K., Stout, R., Zwyiak, W., Fernandez, M., Sanabria, K., Tse, W. Xi, M.,

& W ang, Xi. (2008). Narrative Constructions of Substance Abuse Treatment: Mapping

Trajectories Reported Over a Year-long Treatment Program. Society for Applied

Anthropology Meetings, Memphis Tennessee, March 29, 2008.

Rodriguez, E., Milazzo, M., & Block, P. (2008). Parents and Youth Coping with Pediatric MS.

Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Memphis Tennessee, March 29, 2008.

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Milazzo, M., Block, P., MacAllister, W., Rodriguez, E., Krupp, L., Koch, K., Slota, N.,

Access2Adventure (2007). Community Building and Youth with Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis.

Crossroads II: Critical Issues in Community-Based Research Partnerships. Conference

Organized by the Institute for Community-Based Research, Hartford, Connecticut, June 8,

2007.

Block, P. & Frank G.(2007). Global Solutions from Occupational Therapy, Occupational

Science, Disability Studies and Anthropology: Community-Based Research and Practice. 3-

session Panel at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, Florida, Mar ch 27-31, 2007.

Block, P., Milazzo, M., MacAllister, W., Rodriguez, E., Krupp, L., Koch, K., Slota, N.,

Access2Adventure (2007). Community Building with Children with Pediatric Multiple

Sclerosis: Perspectives from Anthropology, Disability Studies and Oc cupational Therapy.

Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, Florida, March 27-31, 2007.

RECENT POSTERS

Block, P., Friend, K., Zywiak, W., Stout, R.(2010). Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

on Addiction and Disability. Society for Disability Stud ies, June 4, 2010.

McKenna, R., Sniffen, J., Johnson, R., Mancini-Johnson, L., Benz-Scott, L., Block, P.,

Mattera, D., Parker, R.(2008). "Play Fit-Stay Fit: A comprehensive community based wellness

program for childhood survivors of cancer" American Physical Therapy Association-CSM,

February 2008.

Stout, R., Friend, K., Zywiak, W., Block, P., Neighbors, C. (2007) The Reliability of an

Organizational Assessment of Substance Abuse Clinics Based upon the Malcolm Baldridge

Model. Academy Health, Annual Research Meeting, Orlando Florida June 3-5, 2007.

WORKSHOPS

Block, P. (Fall 2005, 2006, 2009) Introduction to Self Defense. Mother s Center of

Suffolk County, Setauket New York.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Board of Directors, Society for Disability Studies 2007-2010

President, 2009-2010, Ex-Officio 2010-2011

Vice President, 2008-2009

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Special Interest Group on Occupational

Therapy and Occupational Science, Lead organizer for 2007 and 2008 conference panels,

annual meeting and journal special issue.

Treasurer: International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID)

Special Interest Group on Citizenship and Empowerment 2000-2005

Peer reviewer for the following academic journals:

Alcoholism

American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Disability and Health Journal

Disability Studies Quarterly

Disability and Rehabilitation

Ethos

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Human Organization

International Journal of Intellectual Disability

International Journal of Disability, Community and Rehabilitation

Sexuality Research and Social Policy

SERVICE TO PROGRAM, SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY

SHTM Committees

By-Laws 2008-Present

Recruitment 2006-2007

Nomination Committee, SHTM Faculty Assembly, March 2006-2008

Curriculum 2002-2006

APT 2003-2008, 2009 (adhoc), 2011, 2012 (adhoc)

Research Committee 2003- Present (Grant Getting Group and Doctoral Study Group)

Vice-Chair, Research Committee, 2006-2008

Chair Research Committee 2011-2012

Diversity 2004-2005, 2008-2010

Mission Statement (ad hoc) 2004

Chair, HRS Search Committee 2012

OT Search Committee 2005-2006, 2008

PT Search Committee 2005

Stony Brook University Committees

Presidential Committee on the ADA 2003-Present (Disability Awareness Subcommittee)

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Committees

LACS Rockefeller Fellowship Committee (2005)

LACS Tinker Fellowship Committee (2003-2004, 2008)

Miscellaneous Program and School Service

Proposed Doctoral Program Disability Studies Concentration Coordinator (organized the

concentration, planned the curriculum and organized the site visit presentation) 2009-Present

Advisor: Student Occupational Therapy Association, SHTM, 2004-2007

Informal Advisor: BSHS Disability Studies Concentration, SHTM 2003-Present (Designed the

Concentration in 2003)

Facilitator: Stony Brook University Disability Studies Discussion Group (originally funded by a

the Dialogues for Diversity Grant) 2003 2005

Co-Facilitator: Brown University Disability Studies Group, (Funded by a Wayland Collegium

Grant) 2000-2002

PUBLIC SERVICE

Peer Facilitator and Steering Committee Member: Mother s Center of Suffolk County

2006 2009

Consultant (pro bono) Educateur, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2004-Present

Board Member: Parents and Friends for Alternative Living (PAL) 2001-2003

Program Organizer: Partners of the Americas Exchange Rhode Island Sergipe Brazil 1998-

Block 12

2001

COURSES TAUGHT

Foundations in Occupational Therapy SBU Fall/Winter 2010-12

Assistive Technology in OT SBU S2011

Research Practicum for OT SBU Summer 2007

Introduction to Research for OT SBU F2006-2007

Projects in Disability Studies SBU S2005

Grantwriting for OT SBU S2004-2006, 2008

Disability Studies & OT SBU S2004-2012

Research Design for OT SBU S2003-2009

Research Tutorial for OT SBU S2003-2008

Independent Study for OT SBU F2003-2008

Health, Sciences & Society SBU S2003-2004, S2007

Disability and Medicine SBU S2003

Society, Culture, and Disability URI F2001

Cultural Anthropology URI S2001

Societies and Cultures of Latin America URI S2001

Disability, Health and Comm unity, Brown U F2000-2001

Sex and Gender URI S2000

STUDENT MENTORING (NAMES REMITTED AS PER FERPA REQUIREMENTS)

OT Program Advisees

Class of 2005: Six Students

Class of 2006: Two Students

Class of 2007: Two Students

Class of 2008: Five Students

Class of 2009: Three Students

Class of 2010: Four Students

Class of 2011: Five Students

Class of 2012: Seven Students

Class of 2013: Six Students

Master s Level Research

Principal Mentor: Five OT Students (2006-2008) Interpreting Outcomes of Substance Abuse

Treatment.

Co-Mentor: Six OT Students (2006-2007). Pediatric MS: Experience of Teens and Their

Parents.

Principal Mentor: Four OT Students (2006-2007). Models of Independence: Cultural

Anthropology, Disability Studies, Occupational Therapy and Independent Living.

Co-Mentor: Five OT Students (2006-2007). Multiple Sclerosis and Quality of Life.

Principal Mentor: Three OT Students (2004-2005). Three Barriers of Multiple Sclerosis

to Physical and Recreational Activities: Depression, Fatigue, and Cognitive Impairments .

Co-Mentor: Three OT Students (2004-2005). The influence of occupations and roles

within family life on perceived quality of life among Chinese and Korean American

elders.

Medical Students

Block 13

Mentor (2005-2006)Third Year Medical Student, Depression in Brazilian Street Children.

Mentor (2005) Second Year Medical Student, Family Medicine in Brazil.

Mentor (2003) Second Year Medical Student, Disability & Medicine. Curriculum

Development in Disability Studies.

Undergraduate Research

Senior Thesis Advisor (2005) Sexuality and mental retardation: The case of Maryhaven.

Stony Brook University

Mentor (2002-2005) Undergraduate/Pre Medical Intern, Project Shake It Up, Brown

University.

Mentor (2003) Undergraduate Student Intern, Project Shake It Up, Hampshire College.

Mentor (2002) Undergraduate/Pre-medical Student Intern, Project Shake It Up, Brown

University

Mentor (2002) Undergraduate/Pre-medical Student Intern for Project Shake It Up, Brown

University.

Mentor (2001) Undergraduate Student Intern, Alcohol, Adaptation to Disability, Brown

University

Mentor (2000) Undergraduate Student Intern, Alcohol & Adaptation to Disability, Brown

University

FACULTY MENTORING

2004-Present Informal mentor in both teaching and research for adjunct and regular

faculty in the BSHS disability studies concentration and in the Division of Rehabilitation

Sciences.

2005-2008 Coordination of the faculty Grant Getting, Professional Development and

Doctoral Support Groups to support SHTM faculty endeavours.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES Skill Level

Portuguese Fluent

Spanish Proficient

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