… of learning from and working with her. “Ms. Ionta was, and remains, a role model for so many of us – a true professional, a leader, a master clinician, a teacher, a … ’83, the MGH Institute’s first physical therapy graduate who was an undergraduate student in the 1970s when she first met Ionta. “It is befitting to memorialize her … in the physical therapy world. Bruce Cochrane recalled the time as a college student when he accompanied his aunt to a physical therapy conference in Boston. She …