Meghan Burkhardt, MS, OTR/L, BCP has been a member of the Occupational Therapy department at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) since 2007 and has served in various clinical and administrative roles throughout the department. Meghan’s clinical focus is ICU level care including the pediatric ICU, cardiac ICU, and neonatal and infant ICU. She has co-authored the following Clinical Practice Guidelines: Progressive Mobility; Ambulatory ECMO; N/IICU Early Mobility; Hematological Lab Values; Lymphedema Treatment in the N/IICU; and Thrombosis. Meghan’s administrative time is spent supporting the educational programming for the OT department as the Education and Development Coordinator, Pediatric OT Fellowship Coordinator, and co-lead of the undergraduate student program
Registered/Licensed Occupational Therapist (OTR/L)
BS in Health Science - University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
MS in Occupational Therapy - University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
General Movement Assessment -Basic 2017
General Movement Assessment – Advanced 2023
NeoNatal Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS-II) 2021
Test of Infant Motor Performance 2019
Occupational Therapist III
Educational and Development Coordinator
AOTA Pediatric OT Fellowship Coordinator
Early Mobility
Chronic Lung Disease of Infancy/Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Data Driven Fieldwork
DeMauro, S. B., Burkhardt, M., Wood, A., Nilan, K., Jensen, E. A., Bamat, N. A., ... & Gibbs, K. (2022). Early motor development in infants with moderate or severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, 15(1), 55-62.
AOTA Roster of Fellowship Reviewers
AOTA Community of Practice: Hospital-Based Pediatrics
The BPD Collaborative: Neurodevelopment Working Group
American Occupational Therapy Association