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Alex Lopez
Associate Professor; Occupational Therapy, School of Health Professions
Associate Professor; , School of Health Professions
Industry Credentials: OT/L, FAOTA
Education Credentials: J.D.
Expertise: Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Community Health Promotion and Wellness, and Health Advocacy
Joined 黑料导航: 2017
Alexander Lopez, J.D., received his Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from Kean University in 1997 and a Juris Doctor from New England Law in 2004. As a licensed occupational therapy practitioner and attorney, he has engaged in several community-based initiatives focused on under-served groups. In addition, Lopez has been instrumental in bringing non-traditional services to governmental and private community-based organizations. In 2007, he founded PAR FORE, a golf mentoring program that utilizes the occupational activity of golf as a medium for developing valuable life skills. Since its inception, PAR FORE has grown from serving a handful of adolescents in New York to serving children in Utah, New Jersey, and Nevada.
In 2013, Lopez founded Inclusive Sports and Fitness Inc., a nonprofit aimed to meet the occupational needs of children with performance skill impairments and help them advance their sensorimotor, social, emotional, and cognitive abilities. In addition, he collaborates with industry leaders in science and technology to explore and introduce innovative and more reliable interventions for children.
- Effects of a multimodal exercise program for children with autistic spectrum disorder on cognitive and motor abilities (Full review Protocol # BHS-1339; 03/06/2017)
- Virtual reality priming: Preparing children with social-emotional impairments in their everyday transitions
- Regal, E., Gawade, V., Guo, WG. (2024). 鈥淧hysics-informed loss functions with explainable AI to predict emission in powder bed fusion.鈥� International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. 88117. V002T07A010. DOI: 10.1115/MSEC2024-125898.
- Saleh, S., Gawade, V., Bifulco, C., Guo, WG. (2024). 鈥淭he impact of investment in technology and learning techniques in work design and ergonomics laboratory for diverse and inclusive interest of ISE students in human factors and ergonomics.鈥� IISE Annual Conference Proceedings.
- Guo, WG., Gawade, V., Zhang, B. Guo, Y., (2023). 鈥淓xplainable AI for layer-wise emission prediction in laser fusion鈥�. CIRP Annals. 72, 1, 437-440. DOI: 10.1016/j.cirp.2023.03.009.
- McGowan, E., Gawade, V. and Guo, WG., (2022). 鈥淎 physics-informed convolutional neural network with custom loss functions for porosity prediction in laser metal deposition鈥�. Sensors, 22, 2, p.494. DOI: 10.3390/s22020494.
- Gawade, V., Bifulco, C. and Guo, WG., (2022). 鈥淟essons learned to effectively teach and evaluate undergraduate engineers in work design and ergonomics laboratory from a world before, during, and after COVID-19. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 66, 1, 756-760. DOI: 10.1177/1071181322661505.
- Gawade, V., Singh, V., Guo, WG., (2022). Leveraging simulated and empirical data-driven insight to supervised-learning for porosity prediction in laser metal deposition. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 62, 875鈥�885. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmsy.2021.07.013.
- Emerging and Innovative Practice Award, American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, 2017
- AOTA Roster of Fellows, American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, 2016
- Community Mental Health Award, Adelante of Suffolk County鈥檚 50th Anniversary Gala, May 2016
- Volunteerism Award from New York State Senator Thomas D. Croci, 2016
- Award for Volunteerism, American Occupational Therapy Association, 2014
- OCTH 607: Development of the Child
- OCTH 612: Conditions in Pediatrics
- OCTH 725: Assistive Technology, Environmental Modifications
- OCTH 820 Motor Learning