Emily Mozena

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About Emily Mozena

Emily Mozena is an Associate Professor of Instruction, teaching several courses at the undergraduate and graduate level each semester and is the program director for the B.S. in Therapeutic Recreation and the M.S. in Health & Human Physiology with a sub-Track Child Life. Emily Mozena has an undergraduate bachelor of Fine Arts degree, with an emphasis in Painting. as well as a master's degree in Leisure Studies with an emphasis in Therapeutic Recreation. In addition, she is currently working on her PhD in Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences. She is dually certified in Therapeutic Recreation (CTRS) and Child Life (CCLS), with an additional training with the Registered Wonderers and Worries Provider (RWWP) program. Emily was a senior child life specialist at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital for 7 years and then began teaching, and now has been teaching for over 13 years at the University of Iowa. Her research interests are in school re-entry for children with chronic illness and extended hospitalization and with children and adolescents and their coping and resiliency when their parent is diagnosed with cancer. Emily assists in facilitating a virtual support group, New Wonderers, for children and adolescents whose parents are diagnosed with cancer, she is a Make-A-Wish volunteer, a faculty advisor to the University of Iowa Child Life Student Association, a board member for the University of Iowa Camp Kesam student organization, and member of the faculty liaison team for the University of Iowa Dance Marathon.