Professor Guptill received her occupational therapy training at Western Michigan University, and her PhD in rehabilitation sciences at Western University. During her post-doctoral fellowship, she completed a three-year training program in work disability prevention at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, in partnership with the Institutes for Work and Health. She holds a status appointment at the University of Toronto's Music and Health Research Collaboratory, and an adjunct appointment in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Alberta. She is co-director of the Canadian Network for Musicians Health and Wellness, a co-founder of Mental Performance in Arts Canada, and currently serves as vice- chair of research for the Performing Arts Medicine Association. She was a founding member of both the Performing Arts Medicine Clinic at the Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic in Edmonton, Alberta, and of the Health Advisory Team for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada (NYOC). She provides primary care occupational therapy to the NYOC, and in 2012, she was honoured to receive a Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of this work. She is a member of the Canadian Federation of Musicians, and in her spare time, she performs as a freelance oboist.
Professor Guptill is accepting new students for thesis supervision.