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Article: MS Achiever of the Year teaches medical students disability awareness. (Dr. Alicia Conill)(National MS Society News)
- Article from:
- Inside MS
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Every year the Society honors a person with MS whose achievements inspire our community. MS deprived Dr. Alicia Conill of her ability to handle a caseload of 3,000 patients annually--but not her ability to care and to teach. She is now Senior Medical Director of Education for Quality at the University of Pennsylvania Medical College and a consultant to the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Alicia Conill has turned her Amigo into her pulpit and her disability into a teaching tool. Recently Dr. Conill ran a 28-hour workshop for medical students at the University of Pennsylvania on the realities of having a disability.
In the workshop, half the ...