Nebraskan Honored with Medical Lifetime Achievement Award

SAN DIEGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) honored Dale Mahlman, former executive vice president of the Nebraska Medical Association (NMA), with the Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors a medical association executive who has contributed substantially to the goals and ideals of the medical profession.

“A tireless advocate, leader, and evangelist for organized medicine, Dale Mahlman believes passionately that engaged membership at the state and national levels are extremely important in the day-to-day life of a physician,” said AMA President Patrice A. Harris, M.D., M.A. “Throughout his tenure, Mahlman leveraged his legislative acumen and personal relationships to protect Nebraskans and their physicians, winning key battles to sustain and optimize Nebraska’s Hospital medical Liability Act and protect the state’s motorcycle helmet law and ban on smoking in public places.”