Emily Rosa

Emily Rosa (born February 6, 1987) is the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. At age nine, Rosa conceived and executed a scientific study of therapeutic touch, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998. She graduated from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2009 with a major in psychology. Her parents, Larry Sarner and Linda Rosa, are leaders of the advocacy group Advocates for Children in Therapy.