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Why pursue the certificate at UAB?
  • UAB is a forty-year-old comprehensive, urban university and medical center that encompasses 82 city blocks and has a student enrollment of more than 16,500 from more than 105 countries around the globe.


  • UAB's School of Health Professions, home to the Department of Occupational Therapy, is one of the largest of its type in the United States both in terms of enrollment and academic programs offered. It consistently leads the nation in research funding received by schools of health professions.


  • Members of our low vision occupational therapy faculty include nationally-recognized experts in diabetes self-management, brain injury rehabilitation, grief adjustment, and pediatric rehabilitation. In addition, our students participate in expert chats with nationally and internationally known experts from the fields of optometry, ophthalmology and research