I create disruptive technologies that help people diagnosed with severe mental illness get hope for recovery and a life in the community. My technologies re-engineer how psychiatrists and people with psychiatric disabilities work together.
I really love the ocean. I feel at peace there.
I want people with psychiatric disabilities to have the opportunity and assistive technologies we need to participate in making decisions about our treatment and care.
Patricia E. Deegan Ph.D. is an independent consultant who specializes in researching and lecturing on the topic of recovery and the empowerment of people diagnosed with mental illness. She is the creator of the CommonGround software program to support shared decision making in the psychopharmacology consultation. Pat is an activist in the disability rights movement and has lived her own journey of recovery after being diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager. She is an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth College School of Medicine and at Boston University, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Duquesne University.
