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Patricia Scott was born in 1953. She grew up in Hingham, a small town south of Boston. She loves the ocean the salt air and everything about nature. She was educated at the University of New Hampshire with a degree in occupational therapy. Shortly thereafter she moved to Virginia Beach where she started working with individuals with mental health challenges and psychiatric disabilities. She continued this work in Ontario before moving to Oklahoma City where she studied for her master’s in public health at the University of Oklahoma and started to teach occupational therapy.
At age 28 she was diagnosed with an autoimmune liver disease. This diagnosis would forever change life as she knew it.
As she studied for her PhD in Public Policy Analysis at Florida International University she went into liver failure necessitating a liver transplant. During this time she completed her PhD, got married, had a medically induced stroke, spinal cancer, a second liver transplant and went on to manage her repeated medical escapades while teaching occupational therapy, and researching recovery post liver transplantation and return to productive living. Her work has been recognized through several grants and awards and after many years in academia she was honored upon retirement with the rank of Professor Emeritus from Indiana University in Occupational Therapy. Autoimmune conditions are as tenacious as she is and in 2017 she nearly lost her life again to a Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia.
Doctor Scott specialized in the study of human participation, an area for which she is nationally and internationally known as a scholar and educator. She leads a coalition of International scholars who seek to establish the Role Checklist v3 as a valid cross-cultural measure of participation. More about her work on the website patriciajscott.com
In her many years of teaching she considers her greatest achievement-- the many students who have gone on to excel in their own careers. A legacy of which she is proud. Prior to Resilience, Patricia Scott had penned dozens of profession journal articles and chapters in occupational therapy textbooks. This is her first book.
Resilience started out as a evidence based account of her research to help individuals facing the same sorts of medical challenges and persistent problems as she did. It became a memoir. It is full of facts and evidence as well as very personal experiences. She would tell you the research was not as meaningful without the context of her life.
The author's hope for this book is that it will enable individuals facing liver transplant and other major medical conditions to prepare themselves for a world of which she had no knowledge. Her training has an occupational therapist informed her ability to overcome challenges and succeed in life, it never prepared her to be a patient. The book is full of strategies for maintaining your sense of self and integrity and not letting the health care system or the disease process rob you of living your life to the fullest.
Patricia Scott is now retired. She is catching up on her writing and next in line is a recovery manual for people facing liver transplantation. She and Karl, her husband and the love of her life, strive to keep Patty healthy so they can travel the world and satisfy their love of culture, good food, and good wine.
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