Karla A. Bell, DPT, GCS

Associate Professor
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Karla Ann Bell, PT, DPT, GCS is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of Clinical Education at Thomas Jefferson University Physical Therapy. Dr. Bell’s teaching focuses around leadership and business, inclusive cultural humility, and sexual and gender minority health and curricular integration. Dr. Bell has 20+ years of clinical experience and is board certified in geriatric physical therapy. As a member of the APTA, she is active in the Health Policy section and Academy of Education. Dr. Bell serves as a co-chair of the LGBTQIA+ PT Proud Committee through the Health Policy Administration of the APTA. She presents/facilitates discussions around inclusive cultural humility practices and health care and health disparities at the local, state, and national levels. She has been invited as a guest lecturer for multiple health professions including nursing, occupational therapy, medicine, and communication disorders, and has provided on-site seminars and workshops for health systems and campus faculty/staff on the topics of intersectional cultural humility recommendations for best practice care and health profession education. Bell also provides faculty development workshops around inclusive practices for student support and curriculum integration of inclusive practices. She is currently part of two funded active educational research projects around sexual and gender minority education in the healthcare professions and an active advocate for inclusive data collection efforts in research for secual and gender minority populations. Bell is pursuing her PhD in Population Health Sciences to help inform her research in this area and is a member of Academy Health.

Presentation(s):

• Sex and Gender Influences on Health and Function: What Rehabilitation Professionals Need to Know? (848688)

  Friday, October 23, 2020
  2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST