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Shepherd Center co-founder Alanna Shepherd featured.

Shepherd Center President and CEO Sarah Morrison has been recognized by Atlanta Magazine's Women Making a Mark program.

Christopher Grubisa shares, highlighting his progress at Shepherd Center as a patient who has experienced quadruple amputations.

Executive Profiles: Shepherd Center CEO Sarah Morrison The local nonprofit rehab hospital has been helping people with disabilities for decades. Shepherd Center CEO Sarah Morrison sits down with David Rubinger on 'Atlanta Business Chronicle's BIZ'

Meant to engage athletes with disabilities to both their upper and lower bodies, wheelchair — or quad — rugby has become the world’s fastest-growing wheelchair sport, according to USQRA. Beyond the physical benefits and instilling confidence in people with disabilities — in and out of the gym — the sport also is a way to shatter stereotypes, players and supporters say.

Former Shepherd Center patient Emily Bowman speaks out against drunk driving as she continues rehabilitation after sustaining a brain injury.

A Dahlonega physical therapist will make the journey of a lifetime this spring as she travels the entire Appalachian Trail to raise $25,000 for spinal cord injury research.

At the age of 20, Clark Jacobs had to fight to learn how to walk and talk again.

For the first time this semester, the University System of Georgia is requiring campuses statewide to offer bed safety rails for students for free.

Former Shepherd Center spinal cord injury patient David Platillero walks across the stage to accept his diploma at graduation from music academy.

Shepherd Center patient Sophia Williams, 17, talks with WSB-TV about the need for teens to get more driver training to help prevent injuries like the one she sustained in an automobile accident in May. Shepherd Center's new mobile app AutoCoach can help.

Patient Emily Bowman previews Project Rollway, which will take place on June 23, for Fox 5 Atlanta.

Shepherd’s Men, a group of active duty soldiers, veterans, and civilians, run to raise awareness for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Shepherd's Men continues its eight-day run to raise money for Shepherd Center's SHARE Military Initiative. On Tuesday, May 23, they were in Washington, D.C.

Shepherd Center named Dr. Michael Yochelson its new chief medical officer.

Georgia Tech students design bed rails for college dorms following Shepherd patient and Georgia Tech student Clark Jacobs' fall from a lofted bed and injury.

Shepherd Center physician Dr. Herndon Murray urges against diving to prevent injuries in the water this summer.

Patriotic vets and civilians stop at NYPD firehouses and honor fallen heroes

The AMA Wire® “When I Knew I Medicine Was My Calling” series profiles Ford Vox, M.D., and a wide variety of doctors, offering a glimpse into the lives of the busy women and men navigating new courses in their careers and in American medicine.

Shepherd Center, the well-known Atlanta hospital for spinal and brain injury rehabilitation, said CEO Gary Ulicny will retire next spring after 22 years as the center’s top executive. His successor will be Sarah Morrison, a 32-year employee who is currently vice president of clinical services.

Gary Ulicny, CEO of Shepherd Center, is retiring after 22 years. On Aug. 25, the hospital's co-founder and chairman of the board James Shepherd announced Sarah Morrison, vice president of clinical services, will assume the role of president and CEO on April 1, 2017.