Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Karen Marcus Sames
- Nov. 16, 2023
Karen Marcus Sames ’80, OTD, MBA, OTR/L, FAOTA was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Minnesota Occupational Therapy Association for her decades of service to the association and tireless advocacy on behalf of the profession.
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