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1947

The first registered OT to become AOTA President is Winifred Conrick Kahmann. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy is first published, with Charlotte Bone as editor, by the AJOT Publishing Company in Boston. The Army-Navy Nurses Act of 1947 (P.L. 80-36) establishes the Army Nurse Corps and Women’s Medical Specialist Corps in the Regular Army, consisting of occupational therapy, physical therapy, and dietitians.

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