Suzanne M. Trump

Instructor, Occupational Therapy

Director, Academic Advising

Education:

Master of Divinity, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

B.S., occupational therapy, Temple University

Expertise:

Hospice, pschosocial issues in health and illness, role of occupational therapy in home health care, spirituality in health and illness, death and dying.

Background:

Before Suzanne Trump came to University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, she was an occupational therapy supervisor at Visiting Nurses Northeast, where she still is employed as a contract occupational therapist. Her primary duties included managing, developing and implementing occupational therapy for home health care. She has co-written material in several publications including an occupational therapy chapter of a resource book for Allied Therapies and research in "Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Home Health Care" for Home and Community Special Interest Newsletter. She has made presentations to several organizations on the role of occupational therapy in hospice.

She is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association and the National Hospice Organization’s Council of Hospice Professionals.