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Dr. Rick Rader is one of five health care professionals who were recently honored by the National Academy of Medicine with a Distinguished Practitioner Award. The Academy is a division of the National Academies of Practice (NAP).
NAP was founded in 1981, in recognition of the need for interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare. Practitioners and  scholars from all of the primary health professions, including Dentistry, Nursing, Optometry, Osteopathic Medicine, Medicine, Psychology, Podiatric Medicine, Social Work, Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy.
Rader, who is Director of the Morton J. Kent Habilitation Center at Orange Grove, has the honor of receiving one of 150 such distinctions to ever be made.
Dr. Rader has a slew of accomplishments, including heading the only Habilitation Center in Chattanooga, and being appointed to the City of Chattanooga, Mayor's Council on Disability. He is the first appointed Special Liaison for Healthcare at the prestigious President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, and has affiliations as consultant, presenter, scholar, researcher, educator and expert medical professional.
He is also Editor-in-Chief of Exceptional Parent Magazine, winning many national awards for editing and public health education.
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