Lori A. Bruch, Ed.D., rehabilitation counseling program director, received the Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Association’s (PRA) 2013 Ralph N. Pacinelli Leadership Award at the PRA Professional Development Institute luncheon held in April.
This award is presented to a PRA member who has exercised extraordinary national and/or state leadership to rehabilitation professionals in order to strengthen, broaden and hone their professional development.
Dr. Bruch is well known as a person committed to the development of new faculty and to her service to a wide variety of University committees and programs. She joined the University in 1995 and is currently the graduate program director for the Rehabilitation Counseling Program and an associate professor of counseling and human services.
Dr. Pacinelli is actively involved in The University of Scranton community, where he has served as a Leahy Faculty Fellow; a valued faculty member of the Rehabilitation Counseling Program and a regular contributor to the Northeastern U.S. Conference on Disability.