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Aaron M. Eakman, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA is Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Colorado State University and Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association. His research program addresses occupational therapy intervention for improving sleep, mental health, and wellbeing. He has developed and implemented the REST intervention which created an occupational-therapist delivered CBT-I program among 9/11 veterans in college with service-connected injuries. He has more recently developed and tested a brief occupational therapy-led behavioral sleep intervention among university students with sleep difficulties in Japan. Aaron consults with regional and international collaborators on developing and implementing sleep intervention programming within existing occupational therapy service delivery. He also collaborates on implementation research projects exploring supports and barriers to sleep interventions within occupational therapy practice, embedding sleep health promotion education within entry-level occupational therapy programs, and promoting post professional education opportunities in sleep health intervention such as CBT-I. Aaron has co-authored chapters on sleep and sleep health in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health and Psychopathology and Function. Aaron’s research also addresses instrument and theory development to foster occupation-based interventions for improving human health and wellbeing in persons with cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal challenges. As well, he has studied supported-education and resilience-based factors contributing to community reintegration, academic success, and wellbeing among military veterans in college with service-connected injuries.
Learn more at: http://www.chhs.colostate.edu/bio-page/aaron-eakman-2330
Natalie R. Rolle, M.O.T., OTR/L began working in the sleep field in 2015 as lead clinician with a grant from Wounded Warrior Project to work with Post 9-11 Veterans to improve their sleep health. Natalie now specializes in behavioral sleep treatments with advanced training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI) and is considered an expert in the field. Based on the successful outcomes of the WWP grant, Natalie worked in private practice for 4 years and has since expanded those services more broadly and opened her own sleep practice. Natalie is the director and lead OT for sleep services within the Center for Community Partnerships (CCP) within the Occupational Therapy department at CSU. Natalie received the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy Impact Award in 2021 highlighting her innovation and expertise in the field and has since been invited to many podcasts and had many articles written on her work. Natalie was also recruited by the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) to be part of a CBTI Jedi group that supports research in CBTI by using what they consider expert clinicians to demonstrate CBTIs effectiveness in many different areas. Natalie is now faculty for the UPENN basic, advanced, and mini fellowship programs for CBTI. Lastly, Natalie provides consultation to other CBTI providers internationally to help them get their CBTI clinics off the ground and hone in their CBTI skills. The goal Natalie seeks is to spread CBTI to the masses while also leading her own practice to lower insomnia symptomology and improve quality sleep/quality of life and daytime functioning through behavioral interventions.
Learn more at: http://www.chhs.colostate.edu/bio-page?person=natalie-rolle-3585