Tenner Accepted to 2006 Universal Health Care Leadership Institute

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (September 25, 2006) – College of Medicine fourth-year student Laura Tenner was accepted to the 2006 Universal Health Care Leadership Institute (UHCLI), sponsored by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) October 20-23, 2006 in Reston, Virginia. The UHCLI was created to provide students with the training they need to become leaders in universal health care on the local, state, and national levels.

The UHCLI has three components: intense education on the current health care system, along with different methods of achieving health care for all; grass roots training focusing on how to run an effective campaign and direct action tactics; and an experience on Capitol Hill, which consists of meeting with the students’ respective congress members on lobby visits.

Laura’s impressive application has awarded her a position for the extremely competitive annual AMSA-sponsored event. As health care reform is one of AMSA’s top strategic priorities, the UHCLI aims to educate and train future physicians to be both patient advocates and health policy leaders, as well as to strive to achieve quality and affordable healthcare for all Americans.

Representing more than 68,000 physicians in training, AMSA is the largest completely student-run organization in the nation. Since its foundation in 1954, AMSA has been a progressive voice in medicine. AMSA believes that patients and health professionals are partners in the management of health care and that access to high-quality health care is a right and not a privilege.