Justin B. Mahida
Justin B. Mahida was elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT) in November 2008 and officially began serving his term in June 2009. He is currently in the fifth year of an MD/MBA dual-degree program, with concentrations in investment management and corporate strategy, at The Ohio State University in Columbus.
Mr. Mahida brings to the AMA-BOT a unique perspective in financial management, backed by a solid understanding of patient needs. His involvement in organized medicine began in the AMA Medical Student Section (MSS). As a member of the AMA-MSS Committee on Long Range Planning he assisted in developing the AMA-MSS Operational Plan for 2007–2010. As chair of this committee (2007–2008) he guided reports on inviting shareholders in medicine outside of the AMA-MSS to participate in its procedures and on restructuring internal policies for leadership selection.
In 2007 Mr. Mahida served as chair of the House Coordinating Committee at the Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates, organizing student efforts to present its largest number of resolutions to date. As an AMA-MSS Region 5 alternate delegate (2007–2008), he synchronized efforts by students throughout the region to present resolutions with a collective voice. In addition, Mr. Mahida is active in the Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA), and served for two years as an alternate delegate from the OSMA to the AMA.
In 2008 Mr. Mahida was appointed to the AMA Council on Long Range Planning and Development, where he has been actively involved in reviewing health care trends in the United States, and in studying the effects on health care of the U.S. economic recession as well as the impact of changes in government since the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. Here, he has studied and presented the reactions of other not-for-profit professional organizations similar in structure and mission to the AMA in response to the U.S. economic recession.
Mr. Mahida is committed to expanding access to high-quality and affordable health care in the United States and in his community. In Columbus he serves on the board of trustees of Access Health Columbus, a local not-for-profit public-private partnership that invests resources in innovations by the community to improve access to care. As part of his business internship, Mr. Mahida works with The Ohio State University Medical Center in commercializing innovations in health care research and delivery. In addition, he routinely sees patients in both the Columbus Free Clinic and the Physicians Free Clinic.
Born in Paintsville, Kent., and raised in Cincinnati, Mr. Mahida graduated from Emory University in Atlanta with degrees in physics and classical studies.
2009–2010
