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Automated Vehicles: Future Initiatives for Occupational Therapy Practitioners and Driver Rehabilitation Specialists

A Randomized Controlled Trial on Automated Vehicle Technologies for Drivers With Parkinson's Disease

Perceptions of Autonomous Shuttles for Adults With Spinal Cord Injuries

Sherrilene Classen is a professor and chair in the Department of Occupational Therapy and an academic leader, with expertise in fitness-to-drive issues in at-risk drivers through the lifespan with content expertise in clinical assessments, driving simulators, on-road assessments, and autonomous vehicles.

 She established SmartDriverTM (2017), a clinical driver rehabilitation program at UF, and developed the 14-credit Post-Professional Certificate in Driver Rehabilitation Therapy—with UF being the sole university in the U.S. teaching this program. She applies a public health, rehabilitation science, and clinical perspective to illuminate the depth and bread of driver rehabilitation as a specialty area.

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