I am thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Mary Goldberg is now associate dean of Interprofessional Studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS). Goldberg, previously the assistant dean of Interprofessional Studies, says, “I plan to serve as an advocate for interprofessional education and bring together our communities, using a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) lens to leverage SHRS' strengths and elevate unique inherent interprofessional disciplines and competencies across the Pitt health sciences and beyond.”
Goldberg is currently the director of the school’s Master of Rehabilitation Technology program in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology (RST) and co-director of two SHRS research enterprises: the Initiative to Mobilize Partnerships for Successful Assistive Technology Translation and the International Society of Wheelchair Professionals. She also serves as the evaluation core director for Pitt’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
Goldberg’s translational research focuses on developing and evaluating capacity-building interventions in assistive technology related to innovation, technology transfer and service provision. She has licensed over a half-dozen interprofessional training resources and developed two Coursera courses that have been accessed by over 2,000 learners worldwide.
RST Chair and Associate Professor Jon Pearlman states, “Mary has built her career in SHRS and RST working interprofessionally with clinical and engineering faculty.” He continues, “She has demonstrated her interprofessional skills by developing and running several training programs across a wide spectrum of topics in the rehabilitation sciences, including through partnerships with the World Health Organization that have reached over 100 countries. Finally, Mary quickly builds rapport with everyone she works with, helping to develop and drive new training initiatives to aid in their success.”
Goldberg is a “forever Panther” having completed all three of her degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in the Schools of Arts and Sciences (BS '05) and Education (MEd '07, PhD '13). She joined SHRS as RST staff in 2007 and has been a faculty member since 2014.
Congratulations, Mary, on this elevated role!
Sincerely,
Anthony Delitto, PhD
Dean and Professor
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Published June 22, 2023