Dr. Krusen is founding program director for a developing clinical doctorate program within the Division of Occupational Therapy Education at University of Nebraska Medical Center in the US. She received her PhD in occupational therapy from Texas Woman’s University. Her research interests include teaching and learning, qualitative methods of inquiry, and constructs of the Occupational Adaptation theoretical frame of reference. She currently serves in national organizations for accreditation and occupational therapy academic education, as well as the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.