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Rebecca Ehretsman - Wikipedia

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Rebecca Ehretsman

18th President of Wartburg College
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2022
Preceded by	Darrel D. Colson

Personal details
Born	Rebecca L. Ehretsman (1972-09-06) September 6, 1972 (age 52) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education	Purdue University (BA) Washington University in St. Louis (MS) Saint Louis University (PhD)

Rebecca L. Ehretsman (formerly von der Heyde and Neiduski; born September 6, 1972) is an American occupational therapist and academic administrator serving as the eighteenth president of Wartburg College since 2022. She is a hand therapist specialized in flexor tendon rehabilitation.

Life

Ehretsman was born September 6, 1972, in Chicago in a Lutheran family.^[1]^[2] Both of her parents were educators.^[3] She completed a B.A. in movement and sport science with minors in psychology and English at Purdue University in 1994.^[2]^[3]^[4] In 1997, she earned a M.S. in occupational therapy from Washington University in St. Louis.^[3]^[4] Christine Novak was her master's project chair.^[5] Ehretsman's master's thesis titled, Subjective Recovery of Nerve Graft Donor Site, was published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery in 1999.^[2]^[6]

Ehretsman is a certified hand therapist specializing in flexor tendon rehabilitation.^[3] From 1998 to 1999, she was an occupational therapist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.^[4] She was a hand therapist at the Milliken Hand Rehabilitation Center from 1999 to 2013 and Shriners Hospitals for Children from 2007 to 2013.^[4] From 2002 to 2013, Ehretsman was an associate professor of occupational therapy with tenure at Maryville University.^[7] She graduated with a Ph.D. in education from Saint Louis University in 2009.^[3]^[4] Her dissertation was titled, Goal Orientation and Problem-based Learning: A Qualitative Analysis in Occupational Therapy Education.^[2] Michael P. Grady was her doctoral advisor.^[2] From 2013 to 2017, she was the chair and program director of the department of occupational therapy at Concordia University Wisconsin.^[7] From June 2017 to June 2022, she was a professor of health sciences and dean of the school of health sciences at Elon University.^[4]^[7] On July 1, 2022, Ehretsman became the eighteenth president of Wartburg College, succeeding Darrel D. Colson.^[7] She is its first female president.^[8]

Selected works

Abzug, Joshua M.; Kozin, Scott H.; Neiduski, Rebecca, eds. (2019). Pediatric Hand Therapy. Elsevier Health Sciences. ISBN 978-0-323-53093-4.

References

^ "Get to know Dr. Rebecca Neiduski". Wartburg College. 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e von der Heyde, Rebecca L. (2009). Goal Orientation and Problem-based Learning: A Qualitative Analysis in Occupational Therapy Education (Ph.D. thesis). Saint Louis University.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Rebecca Ehretsman". Wartburg College. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Neiduski, Rebecca K. "CV" (PDF). Wartburg College. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Christensen, Emily (2022-10-06). "Meet President Neiduski: Wartburg's 18th president is the first woman to lead the college". Wartburg College. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Ehretsman, Rebecca L.; Novak, Christine B.; Mackinnon, Susan E. (December 1999). "Subjective Recovery of Nerve Graft Donor Site". Annals of Plastic Surgery. 43 (6): 606–612. doi:10.1097/00000637-199912000-00005. ISSN 0148-7043. PMID 10597820.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Milone, Andy (2022-03-21). "Wartburg College hires first female president". Courier. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Turner, Jonathan (2023-02-13). "Meet new Wartburg president in the QC". WHBF - OurQuadCities.com. Retrieved 2023-12-25.