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Emily F Piven
Health Matters First of Florida, Inc
Retired Associate Clinical Professor
USA
Dr. Emily Piven (Formerly Dr. Emily Piven Haltiwanger) worked at the University of Texas at El Paso in the Rehabilitation Sciences Department at the College of Health Sciences from 2001-2011. She received her Clinical Doctorate of Occupational Therapy from Creighton University in 2004, Master’s Degree of Health Education from the Medical College of Georgia, and baccalaureate degree in Occupational Therapy from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1974. She is currently active in the World Federation of Occupational Therapists task force for development of an international education course on Disaster Preparedness
Her current diabetes interests include: secondary prevention; cultural diversity; psychosocial adaptation to diabetes and other chronic illnesses, the effect of glucose levels on frequency-domain measures of heart rate variability signals; and complementary and alternative medicine treatment of acute and chronic pain through acupuncture point activation