{"id":21703,"date":"2023-07-17T13:19:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/shane-phillips-appointed-interim-occupational-therapy-head\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:19:23","slug":"shane-phillips-appointed-interim-occupational-therapy-head","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/shane-phillips-appointed-interim-occupational-therapy-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Phillips appointed interim occupational therapy head"},"template":"","news_categories":[23],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-21703","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-admin-note"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p class=\"xmsonormal\">As you may know, we are in the final stages of identifying and selecting the next Department of Occupational Therapy head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">I am grateful to Kelly Tappenden for her leadership as interim head of the department during the past academic year.\u00a0I also want to thank <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/biomedical-health-information-sciences\/directory\/pasupathy-kal\/\">Kal Pasupathy<\/a> and members of the search committee for their efforts in identifying four highly qualified candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">While the goal was to have the position filled before Kelly\u2019s departure, we were not able to meet that deadline. To that end, I have asked <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/physical-therapy\/directory\/phillips-shane\/\">Shane Phillips<\/a> to serve as interim head of the department, effective July 1, 2023, until the permanent head is approved by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/directory\/crespo-carlos-juan\/\">Carlos Crespo<\/a><\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"Appointment effective July 1 until permanent head is approved by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees","content_author":"Carlos Crespo","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=21703"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=21703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}