CORONAVIRUS Update: USAHS plans a full return to campus for 2021 Fall Term courses and lab sessions. USAHS expects to resume all in-person classes and on-campus academic activities, such as regularly scheduled residencies, weekend labs and course intensives, with the September 7 Fall Term start.
OTD, Washington University in St. Louis
BS in Biology, Washington State University
BA in Psychology, Washington State University
Research Interests
Upper extremity injuries
Breast cancer management
Employment for persons with disabilities
App development
BACKGROUND
Dr. Khan-Farooqi graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with high honors in 2010. She completed internships at the internationally recognized Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Hospital in Downey, California, and at the Occupational Performance Center associated at The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis (TRISL).
Following graduation she worked at Children’s Hospital, New Orleans and then the Hand Center of Louisiana, which is a large regional hand center. She then went on to work in the Boston area at a large multidisciplinary orthopedic practice as a lead therapist in an outpatient hospital setting and as an adjunct faculty member at MGH Institute of Health Professionals Occupational Therapy Program.
Dr. Khan-Farooqi is on the board of the American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) as the Practice Division Director, which oversees three working committees (Advocacy, Practice Management, and Federal and State Regulations). She has volunteered with ASHT since 2013 and has served in many leadership positions including Vice Practice Division Director and Advocacy Committee Chair. Dr. Khan-Farooqi also recently became a board member of Austin’s Rebuilding Together. She is a certified hand therapist and a certified upper extremity lymphedema therapist.
She joined the University of St. Augustine as a full-time core faculty member in fall 2015. Dr. Khan-Farooqi currently is a lead instructor for Anatomy Applied to Occupation, Clinical Applications to Adulthood, and OT Methods II: Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Modalities.
