Malcom P. Cutchin, PhD
Professor and Director of Research for the School of Occupational Therapy
Malcolm P. Cutchin joins the SOT as a Full Professor and the Director of Research for the SOT. Dr. Cutchin earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Kentucky. He has nearly 30 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience at four previous academic institutions: Middlebury College, the University of Texas Medical Branch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wayne State University.
Dr. Cutchin has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and edited volumes. In addition to other intramural and extramural research funding, since 1999, he has been the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on 10 NIH research awards totaling over $25 million. He has held faculty appointments in the Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science departments since 2001, and his theoretical contributions to those fields are widely recognized and cited.
Sara Wyckoff, PhD
Assistant Professor for the School of Occupational Therapy
Dr. Wyckoff earned her Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy at Western Michigan University. She received her Master of Health Science with a focus on pediatric OT from the University of Florida. After practicing in Western Washington while raising her son, she went back to school for a Ph.D. in Bio-cultural anthropology at the University of Washington. During this time, she did fieldwork in rural Papua New Guinea. Her thesis was focused on the variations in cultural practice during infancy and the effect of child-rearing practices on gross motor development.
Dr. Wyckoff’s current research focus is on the task demands for caregivers of infants in North America. She is studying the frequency and duration of carrying an infant around, what are the physical demands, what does the infant gain, what does the caregiver gain, as well as lost opportunities for other tasks to be accomplished.
She is also working in a research group on the task the clinician faces when transitioning to full-time teaching and the effectiveness of using case studies to promote interprofessional education. Dr. Wyckoff’s clinical practice has focused on pediatrics, and she has worked with all age groups from infancy to young adulthood, and a variety of conditions, including neuro-muscular and neuro-behavioral challenges. She has worked in private clinics and school districts in both urban and rural settings. She is trained in Neurodevelopmental Therapy (NDT), Ayres Sensory Integration (ASI), and Developmental Individual Relationship therapy (DIR).