Amanda K. Giles, OTD, MSOT, OTR/L, FAOTA is a tenured Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She is a recipient of the AOTA Distinguished Educator Award, AOTA Emerging and Innovative Practice Award, AOTA Roster of Fellows, MUSC Educator of the Year, and MUSC Innovator of the Year.
Dr. Giles currently serves as the Director of the AOTA Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute and Mentoring Program and was the lead author for the AOTA Occupational Therapy Curriculum Design Framework.
As the President and Chief Innovation Officer for International Clinical Educators, she designed DocuLearn, an electronic documentation learning system and continues to create instructional design resources and mentor faculty in the use of authentic video cases and electronic documentation.
Her scholarly interests include educational technology, simulated patient encounters, reflective video analysis, video case-based learning, and faculty development.