December 2025 marked the graduation of UAB’s third cohort of entry-level OTD students, as well as a milestone for two Department of Occupational Therapy faculty. Haley Veloz, (formerly Haley Curry), OTD, OTR/L, and Jason Vice, PhD, OTR/L, SCLV, both graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) MSOT program in December 2015. A decade later, they are preparing future occupational therapists in the classrooms where their own professional journeys began.