Dr. Mackenzi Pergolotti is the Vice President of Outcomes and Research for the Outpatient Division of Select Medical, an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an affiliate faculty member at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Dr. Pergolotti holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in occupational therapy from Russel Sage College and Sage Graduate School. As an occupational therapist, Dr. Pergolotti worked for more than 10 years in multiple clinical settings, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City, developing programs to better address the needs of adults and children with cancer. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Pergolotti obtained her Ph.D. in occupational science with a predoctoral fellowship at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Her first post-doctoral fellowship was at the UNC Gilling’s School of Global Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management, with a second at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Cancer Outcomes program. There, she investigated utilization, access to, and the quality of cancer rehabilitation. Before joining Select Medical, Dr. Pergolotti worked as a tenure-track assistant professor at Colorado State University (CSU) in the Department of Occupational Therapy.