
2025 David Anthony Rooney
A Journey Through Anxiety

2024 Katie Brandt, MM
The Caregiver Trifecta: Empowering Family Caregivers and Clinicians to Plan for Personhood, Dignity and Connection at Every Stage of Care

2023 Mickey Rowe
Fearlessly Different

2022 Kay Redfield Jamison, M.A., PhD
An Unquiet Mind: Professional and Personal Insights About Living with Depression and Bipolar Illness

2021 Dr. BJ Miller
What Really Matters at End of Life

2019 Alan Hobson, Author and Adventurer
Climb Back From Cancer!

2018 Molly McCully Brown, Poet
Something’s Wrong With Me: How Shifting Language(s) of Disability Shape Selfhood.

2017 Phil Hansen, Artist
Embrace the Shake: Transforming Limitations into Opportunities.

2016 Lisa Genova, PhD, Neuroscientist and Author
Still Alice: Understanding Alzheimer’s.

2015 Florence Clark, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA and Carolyn Baum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Mod: Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA. A Conversation about the Future of OT.

2014 Kenneth Feinberg, Esq. Lawyer and Mediator
How much is a life worth? A conversation about valuing life quality.











































































































