Tamicah Gelting, MS, OTR/L

Clinical Assistant Professor, Programs in Occupational Therapy, Science & Technology

Interests & Expertise

Gelting has been a licensed occupational therapist for over 17 years, with extensive experience in adult rehabilitation across settings including acute care, sub-acute rehabilitation, outpatient therapy, and home health. She has been teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee since 2015 and currently serves in both the Master of Science in Occupational Therapy (MSOT) program and the undergraduate Occupational Science & Technology (OST) program, with a primary focus on teaching and research since 2018.

Gelting is currently completing a PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Community and Behavioral Health Promotion. Her research centers on health inequities and is guided by Black Feminist Thought, community-based methodologies, and structural analyses of power. She explores how social and structural determinants of health, including inequities in healthcare access and quality, employment and labor conditions, and the disproportionate targeting of marginalized communities by legal and policy systems, affect meaningful engagement in daily life, particularly for underserved and underrepresented populations.

In both her scholarship and andragogy, Gelting is committed to fostering relationships grounded in accountability, compassion, and transformative justice. She approaches her work with students and community partners from a foundation of Compa Love, an ethic of tenderness, resistance, and mutual care.

Gelting has experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative human subjects research, with expertise in reflexive thematic analysis, community-based approaches, and interdisciplinary inquiry.

Professional Memberships

American Occupational Therapy Association