CONWAY, Ark. (June 13, 2014) – Hendrix alumna Kathryn Davitt
was recently awarded the 2014 Mary Barkey Clinical Excellence Award from the
Child Life Council (CLC) at the 32nd CLC Annual Conference on
Professional Issues.
Davitt, a 1989 Hendrix graduate, is currently Child Life
Specialist for Specialty Clinics at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort
Worth, Texas.
After she received her bachelor’s degree in elementary
education, she was hired as a specialist for the Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH)
Burn Center, Cardiovascular ICU and the Pediatric ICU. She briefly taught in a
fourth grade classroom but was called back to Arkansas Children’s Hospital to
work in the surgery and orthopedic units.
After a six-year stint at ACH, she moved to Texas to work
at Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas. In 1994, she joined the
team at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth. She took a six-month
educational leave in 2000 and received a master’s degree in occupational therapy.
At Cook Children’s, Kat has had a wide range of
responsibilities including several different camp programs, animal-assisted
therapy, infant massage, managing student programs, teen support programs,
community re-integration and school re-entry programs. She has coordinated
volunteers and special events and managed the hospital’s in-kind donation
program. Her current clinical assignment is in the neurology, orthopedic and
rheumatology clinics.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
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the Way You Think about Colleges,
as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
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