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Offiong Aqua

Clinical Associate Professor

Occupational Therapy

212-998-5825

Offiong Aqua holds a joint appointment as a Clinical Associate Professor in the departments of Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Communicative Sciences and Disorders.

Born in Nigeria, he received his M.D. from the Faculty of Medicine at Friendship University, Moscow, Russia in 1986. His post-graduate training at the same University was in Facio-Maxillary Surgery.

For more than a decade, he was a faculty member at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY where he helped establish programs in Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy, and served as Co-Chair, Department of Natural Sciences. He also served as adjunct faculty at New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York before joining the faculty at New York University.

He is a pivotal member of the heath section of NYU Africa House, a research institute that among other things focuses on global African health care issues.) On a NYU health care grant, in 2007, he helped develop an academic partnership between the Ghana Ministry of Health and New York University at Ghana. This partnership resulted in the launching of the Steinhardt School's (Department of Occupational Therapy) first health-related course abroad Jan 2008 "A Global Disability Course" under the auspices of New York University Campus in Accra, Ghana.

In 2006, Dr. Aqua received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He is presently working with six senior faculty members from the NYU School of Medicine and the NYU Wagner School of Health Policy on establishing a joint collaboration with different organizations in Ghana including the Noguchi Medical Research Institute, the University of Ghana School of Public Health, the Ghana Health Ministry and Korle-bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. The focus of the collaboration is building training and research capacity in the areas of emergency medicine, health systems and prevention of non-communicable diseases.

Professor Offiong Aqua successfully conducted a Health System Audit for Akwa-ibom State Government in Nigeria. Akwa-ibom State is the #1 producer of petroleum (oil) in Nigeria. This audit (system of assessment) is currently used for healthcare planning in that region. He is, in addition, working with another senior faculty member from the NYU School of Medicine on a program proposal to institute a Functional Health Care System in the oil producing region of Nigeria (pop = 40 million). The main feature of this program is academic training and international clinical education.

Programs

Communicative Sciences and Disorders

The Communicative Sciences and Disorders Program offers rigorous training for students seeking high-quality education in speech-language pathology.

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Occupational Therapy

NYU Steinhardt’s occupational therapy program educates both aspiring OTs and credentialed professionals looking to further develop their practices.

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Physical Therapy

NYU Steinhardt’s physical therapy program educates both aspiring PTs and licensed professionals seeking to specialize and advance their careers.

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Courses

Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing Mechanism

Using a medical model perspective, this course is designed to help students develop a working knowledge of the structures (anatomy) & functions (physiology) of the speech, swallow, & hearing mechanisms across the lifespan that disrupt communication & swallowing. Anatomy & physiology of the nervous system, subsystems for speech (respiration, phonation, articulation, resonance), hearing, & deglutition are discussed. A detailed study of normal structure and function is requisite for the identification of speech & swallowing disorders.
Course #
CSCD-UE 231
Credits
4
Department
Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Human Anatomy Laboratory

Follows and complements the lecture material presented in the fall semester. Students dissect human cadavers for the purpose of learning the skeletal, muscular, nervous, and circulatory systems.
Course #
OT-UE 1402
Credits
Department
Occupational Therapy

Principles of Human Anatomy

This course will provide an anatomy foundation for students who are preparing to enter healthcare fields like occupational therapy, physical therapy, and physician assistant studies. In addition, it will prepare students who aspire to attend medical and dental schools and are currently enrolled in pre-med, pre-chiropractic, pre-dental, and related programs. It will provide students with sound working knowledge of the structure of all human organ systems. The relationship between gross and clinical anatomy will be stressed as well as the integration of these organ systems during normal and abnormal function.
Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Natural Science
Course #
OT-UE 1001
Credits
2
Department
Occupational Therapy
Liberal Arts Core
Natural Science