Assistant Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Human Performance - Occupational Therapy

Classification:

Faculty

• MOT, West Virginia University, 2018
• BA, West Virginia University, 2017
• OTD, Chatham University, 2022

BIOGRAPHY

About Jacob Tyler Greenfield, OTD, OTR/L, ATRIC, CSRS, CSOT

Narrative:

Dr. Greenfield joined WVU in 2021. His clinical background includes neuro-inpatient rehabilitation. Jacob is a Certified Stroke Recovery Specialist (CSRS) as well as certified in aquatic therapy through ATRI. His specialty areas include stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injuries, and sexuality. Additionally, Dr. Greenfield is a Certified Sexuality Occupational Therapy Practitioner (CSOT). Dr. Greenfield is one of the clinical faculty members in the outpatient faculty practice clinic, offering outpatient services to patients while teaching students the aspects of clinical reasoning in real-time patient care. He is involved in WVU's inter-professional education activities for occupational therapy students with an emphasis on poverty and homelessness. He sits on the Cancer Committee and Survivorship Team through the WVU Medicines Cancer Center. Jacob is also embedded in the brain tumor clinic, where he performs functional screens with patients.

Medical Specialties

• Community Based Practice Occupational Therapy
• Neurological Rehabilitation
• Oncology Rehabilitation

Mr. Greenfield is an occupational therapist who specializes in neurologic rehabilitation for individuals with stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and those with Parkinson disorder. He also specializes in occupational therapy evaluation and intervention for individuals with cancer and is part of the multi-disciplinary survivorship team in the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center.  Mr. Greenfield also provides off-road driving risk evaluations using simulation and a series of clinical tests to assess driving skills and safety needed to return to on-road driving.