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Silena Xiong
Administrative Assistant
Rm R277 Children's Rehabilitation Center (Office)
308 Harvard St SE
Room 5-130, Weaver-Densford Hall (WDH)
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Paula Rabaey, PhD, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, is an associate professor in the Occupational Therapy Program with affiliations in Rehabilitation Science and the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB). She has a PhD in occupational therapy from NOVA Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a master's in global public health from St. Catherine University in St Paul, MN. She specializes in pediatric occupational therapy with an emphasis on birth to three, early intervention, feeding, eating, and mealtimes, neurodevelopmental disabilities, and family quality of life. She is a fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
BA Occupational Therapy, College of St. Catherine, 1992
Dr. Rabaey's research interests include feeding, eating, swallowing in early infancy and childhood, pediatric feeding disorder and family mealtime practices, infant mental health, early maternal bonding with at-risk infants, and working with children with disabilities and their families in low-and-middle-income countries. She has expertise in qualitative, mixed methods, and participatory action research methodologies including photovoice and photo-elicitation designs.
NBCOT Certification in OT, 1992
OT License in Minnesota, current, expires in Feb. 2028
Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association 2024
American Occupational Therapy Association International Service Award 2022
American Occupational Therapy Association
Minnesota Occupational Therapy Association
World Federation of Occupational Therapy
Feeding Matters
Dr. Rabaey has prior OT clinical experience in the Help Me Grow Minnesota program, early intervention, school-based therapy, home-based therapy for infants and young children with complex medical needs, outpatient pediatric OT, and at MHealth Level 3 NICU community sites.