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Valerie Hill, PhD, OTR/L

Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Valerie Hill, PhD, OTR/L is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation, Exercise, and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Her line of inquiry is aimed at developing, evaluating, and implementing life management interventions to reduce health disparities for individuals from minority and underrepresented communities and populations. Her work is focused primarily on individuals with neurological conditions, specifically stroke, transient ischemic attack, and spinal cord injury.

From 2016 through 2022 Dr. Hill’s work was funded through a NIMHD K99R00 award, Early Career Pathway to Independence. It was through this funding that the Life Management Laboratory (Director: Hill), developed a stroke-specific life management manualized intervention (Healthy GOALS), and established the feasibility and efficacy of the intervention. Her work now focuses heavily on modifying and implementing the Healthy GOALS intervention across settings in the continuum of care.

The K99R00 funding opportunity was achieved through collaborative mentoring Valerie received as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Training in Rehabilitation Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials in the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California and a Stroke Fellow in the Stroke Prevention/Intervention Research Program with the Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles. Valerie received her PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences with a focus in Gerontology in 2013, a Master’s in Health Sciences Education in 2005 with a focus on dementia care planning, and her Bachelor’s in Occupational Therapy in 2004, all from Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis.

Valerie has worked in stroke rehabilitation research for nearly twenty years and her research experiences vastly range from developing, evaluating, and implementing lifestyle and behavioral interventions for individuals with neurologic conditions to studying cutting-edge technologies to increase arm function (i.e. electrical stimulation, mental practice, robotics, bracing, rhythm and timing, telerehabilitation) to exploring the relationship between touch sensation of the hand and performance of valued activities, mostly with individuals with stroke. Valerie’s research interests lie in the development, evaluation, and implementation of life management interventions across the continuum of care; lifestyle and self-management after stroke; and community-based life management programming.

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