Susan Edith Tracy (1864–1928) is recognized as a founder of AOTA, but was in Chicago establishing the occupational therapy department at Presbyterian Hospital when the founding meeting occurred in New York. Tracy began teaching nurses to use occupations with invalids in 1906 and wrote the textbook, Studies in Invalid Occupations, in 1910. She served as the first Chair of the Teaching Methods Committee, although she believed that occupational therapists should be trained first as nurses.