Mary Jo Grill, MSW, joined the Rush Epilepsy Center in May 2007 after working as a case manager for the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago for almost two years. Ms. Grill’s role involves working with patients and families affected by epilepsy, providing access to educational, community and advocacy resources. She is an active member of the epilepsy center team, consulting with staff members regularly.

Ms. Grill received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and Spanish from Rosary College in River Forest, Ill. (now Dominican University), in 1996.  While at Rosary, she worked as a child life intern at Lutheran General Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge. After graduating, Mary Jo spent two years in a national volunteer program; first in Minneapolis, Minn., working with youth in foster care, and then in Spokane, Wash., in a program for women and children in transitional housing. While working toward her master’s degree in social work at UIC’s Jane Addams College of Social Work, Mary Jo completed internships at Christ Hospital and Medical Center, where she counseled families who had children in neonatal intensive care, then at an elementary school and middle school in Orland Park, Ill. After graduating with her MSW in 2000, Mary Jo was employed as a school social worker for two elementary school districts in New Lenox and Manhattan, Ill.