Our Speaker:

Bobbi Pineda PhD, OTR/L

Bobbi Pineda is an occupational therapist with Neonatal Therapy National Board Certification. She is an Assistant Professor at Washington University School of Medicine and has been conducting clinical research in the NICU for more than 10 years. The focus of her work has been on defining factors that impede function while developing interventions to optimize outcomes. She leads the Washington University Neonatal Therapy Research lab.. Over the past 5 years, her team has developed and implemented the Supporting and Enhancing NICU Sensory Experiences (SENSE) intervention in the NICU, and they are currently doing a randomized clinical trial on its efficacy. As a scientist and the mother of 3 preterm children, she constantly strives for a better understanding of how to improve outcomes for those who start their lives in the NICU.