Name: Naomi JosmanDate: 1/7/2015

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal Details

NameNaomi Josman

Country of BirthHaifa, Israel

Identity Card NumberIsrael, 0-5124800-3

Marital StatusMarried, 4 children

Permanent Home Address3 B Hashoftim Rd.,

Zichron Yaakov, 30900

Home Telephone Number972-4-6392-622

Office Address & Phone Number: Department of Occupational Therapy,

University of Haifa, Haifa 31905,

972-4-8240-610

Electronic

Web page

Fax Number972-4-8249-753

2. Higher Education

Date of Degree / Degree / Name of Institution
and Department / Period of Study
5.1976 / OT Diploma in Occupational Therapy. / Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Occupational Therapy / 1972-1975
4.1983 / B. OT. Occupational Therapy Supplementary year study. / Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Occupational Therapy / 1981-1982
10.1989 / M. A. Occupational Therapy. / New York University, Department of Occupational Therapy / 1984-1988
1.1994 / Ph.D. Occupational Therapy. / New York University, Department of Occupational Therapy / 1989-1993
Post Doctoral Studies,
Lady Davis Fellowship. / Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Occupational Therapy, supervised by Prof. N. Katz / 1993-1994

3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education

Rank/Position / Name of Institution and Department / Dates
Teacher / Tel-Aviv University Department of Occupational Therapy, Sackler Medical School / 1983-1989
Teaching fellow - Graduate Program / New York University Department of Occupational Therapy / 1989-1991
Adjunct - Graduate Program / New York University Department of Occupational Therapy / 1992-1993
Lecturer (Proposed rank) / University of Haifa Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences / 1994-1995
Adjunct - Graduate Program / Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Occupational Therapy / 1994-1995
Lecturer / University of Haifa Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences / 1996-2002
Senior Lecturer with tenure / University of Haifa Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences / 2002-2007
Associate Professor / University of Haifa Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences / 2007- 2013
Visiting Professor / Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, Department of Occupational Therapy. / 2011
Full Professor / University of Haifa Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences / 2013-present
Visiting Professor / University of Verona, Italy, School of Medicine / 2014-2015

4. Offices in University Academic Administration

Tel Aviv University - Department of Occupational Therapy Sackler Medical School

1983-1989Coordinator - Division studies and fieldwork in Psychiatry

1986-1989 Admissions Committee Member - Occupational Therapy Department

University of Haifa - Department of Occupational Therapy

Managerial Capacity

1998 Head of Karten Computer-aided Training Education and Communication (CTEC) Center (Fall semester)

1998-1999 Department Chair - Acting (Fall semester)

2000-2006 Department Chair - Occupational Therapy Department

2006-2010 Academic head - Occupational Therapy program - Mivchar

2008-2010 Head of the graduate M.Sc. program in Occupational Therapy

2009-2010 Head of the first Ph.D. Doctoral program in Occupational
Therapy in Israel

2012-2013 Head of the Graduate M.Sc. program in Occupational Therapy

2012-Head of the Ph.D. Doctoral program in Occupational
Therapy

2012-Academic head of the Occupational Therapy program in Mivchar

Committee Member Capacity

1996-2000Committee for developing the Graduate M.Sc. Program in Occupational Therapy

1997-2000Teaching Committee - Department of Human Services

1998-2004Teaching Committee - Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences

1998-2003The Dean’s Student Committee - facilitating optimal learning environments for students with physical disabilities

2004-2007 Teaching Committee - Department of Gerontology

2004-Advisory committee - Caesarea Edmond de Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Science

2004-2005Joint Inter-institutional Committee - Technion and University of
Haifa, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences

2006-2010Research Committee - Faculty of Social Welfare & Health
Sciences

2006-2008Admissions Committee Member - Occupational Therapy Department

2005-2006Chair of Committee for developing the B.OT Program in Occupational
Therapy for the Ultra-orthodox community at Mivchar

2007- 2010Teaching Committee - Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences

2007-2009Committee Chair for developing the Ph.D. Program in Occupational
Therapy

2010Head of Joint Grant Committee - University of Haifa and Technion

2014Member in the search committee for the dean of the Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences

2013-Member in researcher promotion committee in the University of Haifa.

5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

Public Voluntary Positions

Date
Editorial / Position / Place
1997-2002 / Editor-in-Chief - The Israel Journal of Occupational Therapy. / Israel
1999-2002
2003-2008
2003-2009
2007-2012
2012
2014
2014 / Editorial Member - American Journal of Occupational Therapy.
Guest Editorial review board member - American Journal
of Occupational Therapy.
Editorial member - Occupational Therapy Journal of Research: Occupation, Participation and Health.
Reviewer for several rehabilitation journals: Human Movement Science, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, NeuroRehabilitation & NeuroRepair, Open Access Rehabilitation, Israel Journal of Psychiatry.
Grant Reviewer - The Medical Research Council, UK.
Editorial board member- International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Editorial board member- Austin Journal of Cerebrovascular Disease & Stroke / USA
USA
USA
USA, Israel,
Canada
UK
USA
USA
Committees
2000-2004 / Chair of the Higher Professional Committee of Occupational Therapy in Israel. / Israel
2002-2003 / Member – Commission on Technology - Council for Rehabilitation of the Mentally-Ill, Ministry of Health. / Israel
2005-2010 / University of Haifa Representative,
Teaching Committee of The Higher Education Council (MALAG) - sectorial academic programs. / Jerusalem
2011- 2013 / Director - International consortium for advancing the science of neurorehabilitation. Grant funded by the McDonnell Foundation. / USA, Israel
2013- / Chair of reviewing committee for the development of an Occupational therapy program in Ariel University / Israel

6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences

a. Active Participation

International

Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation / A Problem-Solving Version of the Allen Cognitive Level (ACL) Test. / Houston, TX. / American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference. / May, 1992
Oral presentation / Establishing Standardization for the Toglia Category Assessment Test (TCA) / Denver, CO. / American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference. / April, 1995
Oral presentation / Relationship of Categorization Assessment to Function in CVA Patients. With N. Katz / Chicago, IL. / American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference. / May, 1996
Oral presentation / Cross-Cultural Assessment of the Contextual Memory Test (CMT). With A. Hartman-Maeir / Hong Kong. / International Occupational Therapy Congress. / March, 1997
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation / Relationship of Categorization Assessment to Function in CVA and Healthy subjects. With N. Katz / Montreal. / International Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists. / May, 1998
Oral presentation / The Activity Card Sorting: A Factor Analysis. With D. Sachs / Philadelphia, PA. / American Occupational Therapy Association - Annual Conference / April, 2001
Oral presentation
Oral presentation / 1. Relationships between categorization test and task performance in people with schizophrenia. With N. Katz
2. The correlation between the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) and the Large Allen Cognitive Level (L-ACL) test in Stroke clients. With T. Jarus / Miami, FL. / American Occupational Therapy Association - Annual Conference / April, 2002
Oral presentation / The Activity Card Sorting: A Factor Analysis. With D. Sachs / Stockholm, Sweden / International Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists / June, 2002
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation / A comparison between sensorimotor and cognitive performance of Palestinian and Israeli children. With T. Abddalh / Prague, Czechoslovakia / The 2nd World Congress of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine – ISPRM / May, 2003
Oral presentation / Video projection versus HMD VR system for rehabilitation: Within and between comparisons. With D. Rand., R. Kizony., P.L. Weiss & N. Katz / Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey / The 2nd International Workshop on Virtual Reality / September, 2003
Poster presentation / Cognitive impairment and everyday competence among three groups of individuals: An empirical study. Poster session. With Y. Goverover. / Tucson, AZ. / American Congress Of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) / October, 2003
Oral presentation / Effect of performance demands and constraints within virtual environments. With R. Kizony & P.L. Weiss / San Diego, CA. / CyberTherapy, Advanced Technologies in the Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences / January, 2003
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation Workshop / Applying the Multicontext Cognitive Framework to School Age Children. Presented with L. Olson and J. Toglia / Long Beach, CA / American Occupational Therapy Association's 85th Annual Conference & Expo. / May, 2005
Oral presentation / Virtual reality: Innovative technology for the treatment for victims of terrorist bus bombing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With T. Weiss, E. Somer, A. Reisberg, H. Hofman & A. Gracia. / Basel, Switzerland / The 10th Annual CyberTherapy conference: A decade of Virtual Reality. / June, 2005
Oral presentation / Virtual reality: Innovative technology for the treatment for victims of terrorist bus bombing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With E. Somer, A. Reisberg, H. Hofman & A. Gracia, T. Weiss / Catalina Island, CA / Fourth International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation. / September, 2005
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation / Dual task and postural control in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. With Y. Laufer and T. Ashkenazi. / Hong Kong / The 4th World Congress of NeuroRehabilitation (WCNR 2006) / January, 2006
Oral presentation / Working memory differences between children five years after cochlear implantation and children with normal hearing. With B. Engel- Yeger & D. Dor. / Villa Erba, Cernobbio (Lake Como) Italy / The International Conference on Newborn Hearing - Screening, Diagnosis and Intervention / May, 2006
Oral presentation / Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for teaching street-crossing skills to Children & Adolescents with Autism. With H. Ben Haeem-Milika, S. Fredrich & P. L. Weiss / Ottawa, Canada / The 11th Annual CyberTherapy 2005 conference: A decade of Virtual Reality / June, 2006
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation
Oral presentation / 1. Performance within a virtual supermarket and its relationship to executive functions in post-stroke patients. With E. Hof, E. Klinger, RM Marie, K. Goldenberg, P L Weiss & R. Kizony.
2. Evaluating street crossing skills in children Using Virtual Reality. With O. Brat, N. Katz & P L Weiss / New York, NY / The 5th International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation / August, 2006
Poster presentation / Using Virtual Reality to assess memory abilities of patients with Multiple Sclerosis. With A. Miller, A. Dinerman, P. L. Weiss, R. Kizony, & A. Rizzo / Madrid, Spain / 22nd Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis / September, 2006
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation / Tangible User Interfaces: Tools to examine assess and treat dynamic constructional processes in children with Developmental Coordination Disorders. With S Jacoby, D Jacoby, M Koike, Y Itoh, N Kawai, Y Kitamura, E Sharlin & P L Weiss / Copenhagen, Denmark / International Conference for Disability Virtual Reality & Associated Technology / September, 2006
Oral presentation
Oral presentation / 1. Development and standardization of
The “Do-Eat” Performance Evaluation tool for assessing children with DCD. With S. Rosenblum & A. Goffer
2. Concurrent performance of a postural and a cognitive task in children with DCD. With T. Ashkenazi T Y. Laufer / Melbourne, Australia / Developmental Coordination Disorders - VII conference / February, 2007
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Poster presentation / A comparison of cognitive performance between Palestinian and Israeli children. With T. Abdallah & B. Engel-Yeger. / St. Louis, USA / The American Occupational Therapy Association's 87th Annual Conference & Expo / April, 2007
Poster presentation / Using Virtual Reality to assess memory abilities of patients with Multiple Sclerosis. With A. Miller, A. Dinerman, P. L. Weiss, R. Kizony, & A. Rizzo / Prague, Czechoslovakia / 23rd Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis / September, 2007
Oral presentation / 1. Performance within the Virtual Action Planning Supermarket (VAP-S): An Executive Function Profile of three different populations suffering from deficits in the Central Nervous System. With E. Klinger & R. Kizony / Maia,
Portugal / 7th International Conference for Disability Virtual Reality & Associated Technology (ICDVRAT) / September, 2008
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation / 2. Tele-evaluation and intervention among adolescents with handwriting difficulties- Computerized Penmanship Evaluation Tool (ComPET) implementation. With L. Hen & S. Rosenblum
Oral presentation Workshop / Occupational Therapy’s Unique Contribution to Cognition. Presented with C. Baum, B. Abreu, G. Gillen, N. Katz, R. Kizony, A. Hartman-Maeir, H. Polatajko, & J. Toglia / Houston TX / The American Occupational Therapy Association's 89th Annual Conference & Expo / April, 2009
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Poster presentation / Virtual reality exposure therapy for the treatment of PTSD following a bulldozer attack on civilians in Jerusalem. With S. Freedman, A. Garcia- Palacois, P. L. Weiss & H. Hoffman. / Verbania, Italy / The 14th Cybertherapy & CyberPsychology conference / June, 2009
Oral presentation / A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Visual-Perception and Visual-Motor Skills in Typically Developing Palestinians, Israeli and American Kindergarten Children. With T. Avi-Izhack, T. Abdalah, B. Engel-Yeger & D. Obler / Santiago, Chile / International Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists. / May, 2010
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation / Cultural Differences in Assessing Visual-Perception and Motor Skills in Typically Developing Palestinian, Israeli and American Kindergarten Children With T. Avi-Izhack, T. Abdalah, B. Engel-Yeger & D. Obler / Philadelphia, USA / The American Occupational Therapy Association's 91th Annual Conference & Expo / April, 2011
Oral presentation Workshop
Poster presentation / 1. Highlighting activity and participation in the evaluation process of children with DCD. With B. Engel-Yeger & S. Rosenblum
2. Client factors underlying disorganization among children diagnosed with Developmental Coordination Disorder. With Lifshitz and Tirosh / Lausanne, Switzerland / DCD - Developmental Coordination Disorders - VIII conference / June, 2011
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation / Describing the Attention Deficit profile of Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Using a Virtual Classroom Environment With Y. Gilboa, S. Rosenblum, A. Fattal-Valevski, C. Toledano-Alhadefb, & A. Rizzo / Zurich, Switzerland / ICVR – International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation / June, 2011
Oral presentation / Using the Virtual Action Planning – Supermarket (VAP-S) as a tool for training executive functions in people with Mild Cognitive Impairment. With R. Kizony, M. Korman, G. Sinoff, & E. Klinger / Laval, France / 10th International Conference for Disability Virtual Reality & Associated Technology (ICDVRAT) / September, 2012
Role / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Place of
Conference / Name of
Conference / Date
Oral presentation Workshop / VR for the brain: Cognitive assessment and rehabilitation
With E. Klinger / Bruxelles, Belgium / Cybertherapy 2012 / September, 2012
Oral presentation
Oral presentation / 1. Cognitive Functional Evaluation (CFE) in community dwelling elderly: Development of a model and an empirical Study With Y. Zilbershlag
2.On the cross-cultural validation of the BOT among Israeli, Palestinian and American kindergarten children
With T. Avi-Izhak, D. Obler, T. Abdallah, B. Engel-Yeger / Baltimore / AOTA / April, 2014
Oral presentation
Oral presentation
Oral presentation
Poster / 1. Advancing the Science of Rehabilitation: Translating Neuroscience and Rehabilitation into Everyday Life With L. Carey & C. Baum
2. On the cross-cultural validation of the BOT among Israeli, Palestinian and American kindergarten children
With T. Avi-Izhak, D. Obler, T. Abdallah, B. Engel-Yeger
3. Cognitive Functional Evaluation (CFE) in community dwelling elderly: Development of a model and an empirical Study With Y. Zilbershlag
4. Driving hazard perception in adults with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI): laboratory, driving simulator and on-road test performance With R. Kizony, G. Zeilig, V. Rubin, B. Mazer, T. Oron-Gilad, A. Borowsky, A. Obuhov, & A. Nota / Yokohama, Japan / World Federation of Occupational Therapy / June, 2014

In Israel

Date / Name of
Conference / Place of
Conference / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Role
November,
2000 / Israeli Rehabilitation Annual Conference / Ramat-Gan / 1. Do categorization tests predict everyday function in people with neurological and psychosocial disabilities? With R. Dudai / Oral presentation
Date / Name of
Conference / Place of
Conference / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Role
November,
2000 / Israeli Rehabilitation Annual Conference / Ramat-Gan / 2. Assessing hand function: An empirical study. With S. Rosenblum / Oral presentation
February, 2002 / Meital- Inter Universities Center for E-Learning (IUCEL) / Technion / Advantages and disadvantages of online learning for students in the health care professions. With P.L. Weiss & T. Jermias-Cohen / Oral presentation
2003 / Meital –Inter Universities Center for E-Learning (IUCEL) / Bar-Ilan University / 1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Synchronous Online Learning in the Health Care Professions. With T. Weiss, R. Harpaz, N. Schreuer, O. Palmon, & M. Konja
2. Applying online learning into academic Occupational therapy curriculum. With P. L. Weiss & N. Schreuer. / Oral presentation
Oral presentation
July, 2003 / The 12th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society of Occupational Therapy. / Tel-Aviv / Characteristics of two different systems of the Virtual Reality office. With D. Rand., R. Kizony, P.L. Weiss & N. Katz / Oral presentation
December, 2003 / Equipment and advanced technologies in rehabilitation / Shefayim / A model for applying VR in rehabilitation. With R. Kizony, P.L. Weiss & N. Katz / Oral presentation
July, 2004 / The 13th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society of Occupational Therapy. / University of Haifa / Introducing a meta-cognitive component to handwriting intervention in children: A single-case study research design. With A. Schein & D. Sachs. / Oral presentation
March, 2005 / The 3rd Virtual Reality Symposium. Virtual Reality, Associated Technologies and Rehabilitation / University of Haifa / Using VR therapy simulation of terrorist attacks for homeland security. With P.L. Weiss, E. Somer, A. Reisberg, H. Hofman & A. Gracia. / Oral presentation
December, 2005 / The 56th Annual Conference of the Israeli Association of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine / Tel Aviv / 1. Haptic system for research and rehabilitation. With U. Feintuch, L. Raz, R. Kizony, M. Shahar & T. Weiss.
2. Attention and postural control in children With Developmental Coordination Disorder. With T. Ashkenazi, Y. Laufer & D. Orian. / Oral presentation
Oral presentation
Date / Name of
Conference / Place of
Conference / Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments / Role
December, 2005 / The 56th Annual Conference of the Israeli Association of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine / Tel Aviv / 3. Validity and base-line performance across age- groups with the STISIM driving simulation. With R. Kizony, R. Avrahami, N. Gilad, K. Givoli, R. Naor, N. Regev, A. Schneiderman, S. Susser & T. Weiss. / Oral presentation