title: 'Unleash the energy'. Activists, professors try to use their own sphere of influence to affect U.S. healthcare policy and improve patient care.
abstract: In this issue we profile six educators and other professionals who are helping train the next generation of healthcare activists, and each has similar lessons to pass on. Michael Ehlert, left, of the American Medical Student Association, says his involvement with the group was "the most intense and formative leadership experience out there. It caught me up and plugged me in."
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vesely
mesh_terms: D008119:Lobbying; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D005791:Patient Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States