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Faculty:
Deborah L. Rochman
 Deborah
L. Rochman, M.S., OTR/L
Boston University, Sargent College
Ithaca College
Lecturer
Ms. Rochman teaches courses in clinical reasoning and pain management. She
has worked in hospital, outpatient, community-based and university settings over
the past twenty-five years. Her clinical expertise is in chronic pain
management. She was the first occupational therapist to work in and develop
inpatient pain programs for Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts and John's Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. She is an active
member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, the American Pain
Society, the New England Pain Association and the Tufts Orofacial Pain Society.
Ms. Rochman's early research interest centered on pain knowledge, education and
training of rehabilitation professionals. She co-authored a pain knowledge and
attitude survey,
The City of
Boston Rehabilitation Professionals' Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding
Pain.
Ms. Rochman's current research interest is chronic pain and its impact on role
functioning in facial pain populations. She is currently testing the validity
and utility of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) at Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine, Craniofacial Pain Center where she is a
Clinical Instructor.
Currently Ms. Rochman maintains a private practice providing services at home or
at the worksite for clients with pain-related disability.
Read Ms. Rochman's article (October 2002) in the Tufts Journal on
Strategies for Coping with Disabling Pain.
Learn more about
Deborah Rochman.
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