… be sharing this stage! I trusted my strength and my stubbornness enough to carry me through the hardest moments of my entire life, and promised myself that I would … the single thing keeping my head above water long enough, was you.  Don’t look at me like that. Yes, I’m talking about you .  Well, the generations of you before you, … single discipline making up this beautiful, interprofessional crowd in front of me. I owe my ability to stand before you today to the collective efforts of the …

… Even in moments when I doubted my abilities, there were thousands of fans urging me to push forward,” says Carroll. Carroll chose to run in support of the IMPACT … rare congenital heart condition Loeys-Dietz syndrome. "Many factors contributed to me to keep pushing through when my legs wanted to stretch and rest. I was thinking of … words of encouragement from Mr. & Mrs. Ryan that an angel would be watching over me while I race," says Chesnard. As a nursing graduate, Chesnard was drawn to help …

… for the leadership in the OT department and throughout the IHP who have allowed me to be me, to weave my sense of humor and advocacy throughout everything I do.  “After … means. Like most people on the planet, I had no idea what that meant, and it took me a while to figure out, through lots of different jobs, what my niche was. But here … for the leadership in the OT department and throughout the IHP who have allowed me to be me, to weave my sense of humor and advocacy throughout everything I do.  …

… so drawn to navigating and solving the challenges because I have my team backing me every day, and the positive moments where kids have breakthroughs make the work … be an occupational therapist leading a specialized mental health program. It fills me with pride. I recognize the privilege I hold being in a leadership position, now … I believe every member of the team should have a say in decision making, with me as the final decision maker who makes sure we keep operations moving. I’d compare …

… if I were the clinician, the patient’s spouse, etc., this might be going on for me." You literally try to put yourself in the shoes of all of the various people in … I remember when I was a presenter, I told a story that was deeply personal to me. The only reason I told it was because the Balint group I was in, which I usually facilitated, was so small that it just had the exact right recipe for me to feel safe enough to be able to tell this story. After I told it and had to push …