In addition to his work at CARE, he runs a clinical practice, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Neuroscience, also located in Hot Springs, AR.  He is on the Board of Trustees of  the APPI ( Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators) and sits on the Ethics Committee as well chairing and founding the Patient  Advocacy Committee. Dr. Pellegrino is the recipient of the 1995 Ten Outstanding Young Americans  Award. He received this award for his work in founding and helping develop INNResearch, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information and access to an underserved elderly population. He is also founder and President of the Physicians Media Project. The mission of the Project is to provide a direct media voice for patients. The purpose is to help develop tools and products that facilitate the accurate portrayal of the human side of illness in television, movies and newspapers. He has a regular newspaper column in the Hot Springs Sentinel Record, has produced a documentary on multiple sclerosis and has written a medical thriller, Point Source.