Feedback Form Leads to Insight  ALS Case Manager Touches the
Lives of Many  by Kathy Wechsler on Tue, 2005-02-01 17:00
Patricia O'Connor enjoys getting to know the people with ALS and
their families / Photos by Erin Lubin  A registered nurse with a
bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York, Patricia
O’Connor is the nurse case manager for the Forbes Norris MDA/ALS
Research Center’s multidisciplinary clinic at California Pacific
Medical Center in San Francisco. O’Connor has been at the ALS
center for eight years. With a background in rehabilitation and
case management, O’Connor gained much of her valuable
rehabilitation experience working at the Boston Center for
Independent Living.  Her many hats  As nurse case manager, a
role that exists in only the largest of MDA/ALS centers,
O’Connor sees almost all people with ALS and coordinates
referrals for any treatment or equipment needed after they leave
the center. Involved with the people with ALS at every stage of
their postdiagnosis lives, she also deal