Rahul Dasari

Rahul Dasari, OTR/L, CHT, is an occupational therapist with nearly 10 years of experience dedicated to improving function across the lifespan. He has been a Certified Hand Therapist since 2022. His clinical expertise was shaped by training with the Andrews Institute team in Pensacola, FL, where he treated performance athletes and community members, and by managing complex orthopedic, neurological, burn, and traumatic injuries at Tampa General Hospital, a Level I trauma center. He currently practices at the AdventHealth Wesley Chapel outpatient clinic, treating diverse patients with conditions of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand, and fabricating custom orthoses. Rahul is collaborating with the University of South Florida School of Music on research examining hand function in musicians. He has presented at conferences on topics such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome rehabilitation and tendinopathies, has spoken at universities on the role of OT in healthcare, and has mentored students from pre-OT shadowing through Level I and II fieldwork. He earned a BS in Biomedical Sciences from the University of South Florida and a Master of Occupational Therapy from Missouri State University.