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Experience Living with a Disability Helps Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Peer Mentors Connect with Patients
LIFE Center Manager Lisa Rosen co-founded the peer mentoring program in 2003. There had always been some informal mentoring going on as patients talked with other patients or hospital volunteers with disabilities, but Rosen realized there was a need for a more structured program.
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James L. Patton, PhD
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Professor, Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Senior Occupational Therapist I
Grace Pelrine, PT, DPT
Senior Physical Therapist

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Senior Occupational Therapist I, Allied Health Research Associate