Instructor
College of Rehabilitation Sciences
Department of Occupational Therapy
771 McDermot Avenue
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0T6
Lisa Mendez, BMR (OT), MOT
Teaching philosophy
Lisa Mendez is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher, who aligns her teaching style with the Department of Occupational Therapy's mission to provide a high quality, accessible, and innovative educational program that prepares individuals for current and future practice. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes balancing the teaching of content and practical skills with providing students with opportunities to develop their own process of learning and professional reasoning for the future. Mendez has experience teaching a variety of topics, including the impact of the environment on occupation, professional reasoning, social determinants of health, and health equity. She has a background in pediatrics, and has worked in a pediatric rehabilitation center, school districts, and community-based programs.
Biography
Lisa Mendez began working as an instructor in the University of Manitoba's Department of Occupational Therapy in 2002, where she focused on recruiting and supporting fieldwork placements.
Through this role, she was able to develop innovative practice opportunities in various environments, leading to opportunities in primary care, justice, education, municipal government, and not-for-profit agencies.
In 2017, she was appointed interprofessional practice coordinator for the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences' Office of Interprofessional Collaboration (OIPC), which was established in 2015.
Her role is to support interprofessional practice placements in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and establish opportunities in northern and rural communities.
Mendez is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher, with expertise in the impact of the environment on occupation, professional reasoning, social determinants of health, ways of viewing health and well-being, and health equity.
Her practice has mainly been in pediatrics, working in various settings including a pediatric rehabilitation center, school divisions, a community-based private practice, and a northern health program.
Although based in Winnipeg, her clinical work has mainly occurred in rural and remote communities within Manitoba and Nunavut.
Education
Master of Occupational Therapy (2012)
Bachelor of Medical Rehabilitation (Occupational Therapy) (1999)
Contact us
College of Rehabilitation Sciences
R106 - 771 McDermot Avenue
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0T6 Canada
204-789-3897
204-789-3927