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Lisa Savarese

Associate Teaching Professor
Rec Mgmt & Recl Therapy University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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Lisa Savarese

Associate Teaching Professor

Rec Mgmt & Recl Therapy

Specialty area(s)

Adapted sports and recreational therapy 

Current courses at UWL

RTH250 Introduction to Recreational Therapy 
RTH329 Diagnostic Groups in Recreational Therapy

RTH452 Modality Preceptorship in Recreational Therapy II

RTH493 Advancing the Recreational Therapy Profession

Education

Master of Science in Therapeutic Recreation from UW - La Crosse

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Loyola University Maryland

Career

Teaching history

I began teaching in the Department of Recreation Management and Recreational Therapy in the fall of 2012.

Kudos

awarded

Tara Delong, Lindsey Kirschbaum, Lisa Savarese, Jennifer Taylor and W. Thomas Means, all Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, were awarded a Curriculum Redesign Grant from UWL. This team of Therapeutic Recreation faculty will engage in a series of active workshops, curricular analysis, and assessment to redesign the TR curriculum over the course of the upcoming academic year.

Submitted on: April 4, 2022

awarded

Tara Delong, Namyun Kil, Lindsey Kirschbaum, Wayne Means, Nancy Richeson, Lisa Savarese and Jennifer Taylor, all Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, received the award for Therapeutic Recreation Program of Excellence at the American Therapeutic Recreation Association Annual Conference on Sept. 15 in Reno, NV.

Submitted on: Sept. 16, 2019

published

Lisa Savarese, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation, authored the article "Book Review of 'Communication, sport, and disability: The case of power soccer'" in American Journal of Recreation Therapy published on Mar. 14, 2019 by Weston Medical Publishing, LLC.

Submitted on: Mar. 15, 2019