The Conill Institute for Chronic Illness provides education for healthcare professionals to increase empathy, knowledge, and awareness about people living with chronic illness and physical disability.
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Conill Institute in the News
  • The September 7, 2006 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published an instrumental article about educating health care professionals on the needs of the disabled. The University of Pennsylvania program, championed by Dr. Alicia Conill, is listed and recognized as one of the top programs in the country.
  • Dr. Conill and the Conill Institute are featured in an article From Doctor to Patient to Teacher in New Mobility Magazine, June 2006.
  • Access Press features an article about Dr. Conill entitled A Doctor with MS: Lessons Learned by Herb Drill. To read the article go to: http://accesspress.org/archive/2006/02/story_doctor_with_multiple_sclerosis.htm
  • Dr. Conill was profiled in the December issue of the Philadelphia Business Journal for her achievement as one of Philadelphia’s 25 women of distinction for 2003. To read the profile see: http://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/philadelphia/content/story.html?id=888558
  • Dr. Conill was featured in the November 2003 issue of New Mobility Magazine. www.newmobility.com For an overview see: http://www.newmobility.com/review_article.cfm?id=1155&action=browse
  • JAMA publication on Special Communication co-authored by Dr. Conill and colleagues on Reasonable Accommodations for Medical Faculty with Disabilities by Annie G. Steinberg, MD; Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc; Alicia Conill, MD; Margaret Stineman, MD in JAMA, 2002;288:3147-3154. See: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/288/24/3147
  • An interview featuring Dr. Conill explaining The Disability Experience training in the ACP-ASIM Observer, a monthly newspaper for 120,000 members of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. Dr. Conill also provided advice for physicians on friendly and effective care of their disabled patients.
  • Dr. Conill’s article Living with Disability: A Proposal for Medical Education was featured in JAMA’s Pulse for Medical Students. To read the article see: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/279/1/83
  • National MS Society News highlighted Dr. Alicia Conill for her award as MS Achiever of the Year. See: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0850/is_n2_v16/ai_20970655