Mentoring Success Stories
Margo B. Holm, PhD, OTR/L,
Joan C. Rogers, PhD, OTR/L,
and Elizabeth
R. Skidmore, PhD, OTR/L
Department of Occupational Therapy
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Presaging by two decades the current expanding emphasis on good
mentoring practice in academic science, Joan Rogers, professor and
chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy, 
published an article
in the early 1980s entitled "Developing Leaders for Occupational
Therapy." As evidenced
by Margo Holm, professor and director of post-professional education,
Rogers put her ideas into practice.
Holm not only completed her postdoctoral fellowship under Rogers, but after serving her early academic career in her home state of Washington, returned to Pitt to once again work with her mentor. According to Holm, "When one is mentored well, the way to return that gift is to mentor another." That's insight both she and Rogers are in turn passing along to Elizabeth Skidmore, who under their guidance has earned her post-professional master's degree in occupational therapy and doctoral degree in rehabilitation science and was most recently appointed to the position of assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy.
