Julie Oreper Master of Science in Occupational Therapy

Julie Oreper is MScOT program graduate from the University of Toronto. She is an Ontario Graduate Scholarship recipient (2020-2021). Her work experience includes three years at a non-profit organization as a Program Coordinator providing community-dwelling older adults with food security and social supports, and as an Occupational Therapist at a rehab hospital with complex continuing care and transitional care patients. She holds a B.S.W. and M.B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and her research focuses on the chronic pain and transition of health care experience among young adults, the use of telemedicine, and the impact of Covid-19 on community-dwelling older adults.

University:

University of Toronto

Principal Department/Program:

Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

Supervisor:

Sarah Sheffe

Key Publications:

Rotenberg, S., Oreper, J., Bar, Y., Davids-Brumer, N., Arbel, I., Dawson, D. (2021). The lived experience of community-dwelling older adults during COVID-19 lockdown. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 40(4)