Directory of Ethnic Medical Associations
The list below contains names, contact information and the name of a recent president of many ethnic medical organizations in the United States.
It is extremely difficult to maintain current information for these organizations because the address and telephone number often changes when there is a change in officers. If you have additional or more current information, please contact us.
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American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
600 Enterprise Drive, Suite 108
Oak Brook , IL 60523
President: Sanku Rao, MD
Phone: (630) 990-2277
Fax: (630) 990-2281
E-mail
Web site
American College of International Physicians
9323 Old Mt. Veron Road
Alexanderia, VA 22309
Chairman BOT and President: Alex Yadao, MD
Phone: (701) 221-1500
Fax: (703) 221-1500
American Association of Surgeons of Indian Origin
Highland Park Plaza, #209
Covington, LA 70433
President: Surendra K. Purohit, MD
Phone: (504) 892-6811
Fax: (504) 892-8767
American Lebanese Medical Association
6302 Princeville Circle
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
President: Paul Wakim, MD
Phone: (717) 960-0564
Fax: (717) 960-7655
E-Mail: fvortho@aol.com
Web site
Argentine - American Medical Society (AAMS)
Sociedad Medica Argentino-Estadounidense
854 Jefferson Street
Baldwin Harbor, NY 11510
President: Mara J. Fiorentino, MD
Admin. Secretary: Mrs. Mirta Barone
Fax: (516) 771-0580
E-mail: mf380@aol.com
Web site
Asian-American Medical Society
8695 Connecticut, Suite D
Merrillville, IN 46410
President: Vijay Dave, MD
Asian-American Physician Association of Western New York
725 Orchard Park Road
West Seneca, NY 14224
President: Kailash Lall, MD
Phone: (716) 675-1001
Association of Chinese American Physicians (ACAP)
33-70 Prince Street, Suite 703
New York, NY 11354
President: David Zhang
Phone: (718) 321-8893
Web site
Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad
1166 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11213
President: Reynold DuCasse, MD
Phone: (718) 245-7015
Association of Kerala Medical Graduates
41 Woodshire Dr.
Ottumwa, IA 52501
Phone: (641) 682-2509
President: P. C. Punnen, MD
Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas
16008 Amar Rd.
City of Industry, CA 91744
Phone: (330) 677-0400
E-Mail: admin@anpa.org
President: Julius Kpaduwa, MD
Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America
6414 South Cass Avenue
Westmont, IL 60559
President: Syed Abdus Samad, MD
Phone: (630) 968-8605
Fax: (630) 968-8677
E-Mail: president@appna.org
Web site
Association of Philippine Physicians in America
312 Sprague Road
Penn Valley, PA 19072
President: Francis Talangbayan, MD
Phone: (610) 563-6756
Bangladesh Medical Association of North America
4250 Hempstead Turnpike
Bethpage, NY 11714-5707
President: Abul F. Islam, MD
Phone: (989) 686-8382
Web site
Burmese Medical Association of North American
P.O. Box 20052
Baltimore, MD 21284
President: James Hsu, MD
Phone: (505) 522-2400
Chinese American Medical Society
41 Elizabeth Street, Suite 403
New York, NY 10013
President: Wilson Ko, MD
E-Mail
Web site
Chinese American Physicians' Society
817 Harrison Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Executive Director: David Derr, MD
President: David Law, MD
E-Mail
Web site
Colegio Medico Cubano Libre
P. O. Box 141016
Coral Gables, FL 33114-1016
President: Enrique Huertas, MD
Phone: (305) 446-9902
Confederation of Hispanic American Medical Associations
900 Ridge Side Drive
Monterey, CA 91754
President: Adrian Ortega, MD
Dominican American Medical Society
610 West 145th Street
New York, NY 10031
President: Manuel Acevedo, MD
Phone: (212) 234-9100
FMG Organization
92 Bogota Street
Staten Island, NY 10314
President: Jairo Casas, MD
Phone: (718) 698-5967
Hellenic Medical Society of New York
401 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
President: George D. Dungas, MD, PhD
Phone: (212) 683-4447
Hudson Valley Indian Physician Practitioners
97 Main Street
Fishkill, NY 12524
President: Jai K. Jalag, MD
Phone: (914) 897-3210
Fax: (914) 897-3290
Hungarian Medical Association of America
P.O. Box 421
Buffalo, NY 14226-1617
President: Tamas Peredy, MD
Phone: (716) 510-3719
E-mail: peredy@gwi.net
Icelandic Medical Association
Children's Hospital, 34th and Civic Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (267) 426-6047
Illinois-Peruvian American Medical Society
918 Williams Street
River Forest, IL 60305-1457
President: Miguel Pru, MD
Indian American Urological Association
Two Wooodfield Lake
1100 East Woodfield Road, Suite 520
Schaumburg, IL 60173
President: Amit Chakrabarty, MD
Phone: (847) 517-7225
Web site
Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons, Inc
1616 H Street, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006
President: Rene F. Rodriguez, MD
Phone: (202) 467-4756
E-Mail
Web site
International College of Surgeons - U.S. Section
1516 North Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60610
President: Wickii Vigneswaran, MD
Phone: (312) 787-6274
Fax: (312) 787) 9289
Web site
Iranian American Medical Association
P.O. Box 8218
Haledon, NJ 07538-0218
President: Barry Sadegi, MD
Phone: (973) 595-8888
Web site
Iranian American Medical Association Javaan Chapter
President: Ashkan Afshin, MD
Phone: (949) 235-6137
Web site
E-mail
Iranian Medical Society
P. O. Box 33
Woodbridge, VA 22194
President: Hamed Khosrav, MD
Phone: (703) 680-2888
Islamic Medical Association of North America
101 W. 22nd Street, Suite 106
Lombard, IL 60148
Executive Director: Hafizur Rehman, MD
Phone: (630) 932-0000
Fax: (630) 932-0005
E-Mail
Japanese Medical Society of America
100 Park Avenue, Suite 1600
New York, NY 10017
President: Shunichi Homma, M.D.
Phone: (212) 315-5038
E-mail
Web site
Korean-American Medical Association of the U.S.
40 Bennet Road
Engelwood, NJ 07631
President: Euishin E. Kim, MD
Phone: (201) 541-1345
E-mail: kamausa2001@yahoo.com
Web site
Morgagni (Italian) Medical Society
215 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10075
President: Matthew J. Bonanno, MD
Phone: (212) 570-6411
National Arab American Medical Association
801 S. Adams Street Suite 208
Birmingham, MI 48009
President: Rodwan K. Rajjoub, MD
Phone: (248) 646-3661
Fax: (248) 646-0617
E-Mail
Web site
National Hispanic Medical Association
1700 17th Street, NW, Suite 405
Washington, DC 20009
President and CFO: Elena Rios, MD, MSPH
Phone: (202) 265-4297
Web site
North American Taiwan Medical Association- Chicago Chapter
38 Ridgefield Lane
Willowbrook, IL 60521
Phone: (708) 229-5812
Fax: (708) 499-2337
Philippine Medical Association of America
993 Bergen St.
Brooklyn, NY 11226
President: Edgardo Macalino, MD
Phone: (718) 852-8564
Polish-American Medical Society
5428 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60630
President: Bronislaw Orawiec, MD
Phone: (773) 594-1515
E-mail: orawiec@sbcglobal.net
Rajasthan Medical Alumni Association
89 Shore Road
Manhasset, NY 11030
President: Pravin Singhai, MD
Phone: (516) 825-5505
Romanian Medical Society of New York
21-26 Broadway
Astoria, NY 11106
President: Napoleon Savescu, MD
Phone: (718) 932-1700
Fax: (718) 728-7635
Russian American Medical Assocation
36100 Euclid Avenue - Suite 330-B
Willoughby, OH 44094
President: Yergenly Khavkin, MD
Phone: (440) 953-8055
Fax: (440) 953-0242
Web site
Salvadorean American Medical Society
1631 North Loop West #570
Houston, Texas 77008
President: Jose’ Guillermo Maza, MD
Phone: (305) 412-9435
Web site
Serbian-American Medical Society
30 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 510
Chicago, IL 60602
President: Zeljko Attagic, MD
Society of Asian-Indian Surgeons of America
Department of Surgery
Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center
1650 Selwyn Avenue, #4H
Bronx, NY 10457
President: Vellore S. Parthivel, MD
Phone: (718) 960-1251
Society of Philippine Surgeons in America
President: Reynaldo Castillo, MD
E-mail
Spanish-American Medical Society
420 Lakeville Road
Lake Success, NY 11042
President: Franklin A. Caldera, MD
Phone: (516) 354-0710
Fax: (516) 354-8181
Sudanese American Medical Association
P. O. Box 38
LaCrosse, WI 54602-0038
President: Omer A. Mohammed-El-Amin
(508) 314-5000
E-mail
Web site
Thai Physicians Association of America
1165 Stonewall Trail
Fairview Heights, IL 62208
President: Saleewan R. Limawararut, MD
Phone: (618) 628-0223
Fax: (618) 628-1672
Web site
Turkish American Physicians Association
1350 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
President: Saedettin Sun, MD
Ukrainian Medical Association of North American
2247 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
President: Ariadna Holynskyj, MD
Phone: (773) 278-6262
E-mail: chudovali@aol.com
Web site
United States Colombian Medical Association (USCMA)
2600 Douglas Rd., Suite 506
Coral Gables, FL 33134
President: Marco Danon, MD
Phone: (305) 446-7099
Fax: (305) 446-3340
E-mail: uscma@uscma.org
Web site
Venezuelan American Medical Association
P.O. Box 15460
Plantation, FL 33318-5460
Vietnamese Medical Association of the USA
4221 Greenway
Baltimore, MD 21218
Chairman: Thuy Dinh Tran, MD
Phone: (410) 502-5383
Web site
Please note that updated information on the following organizations was not available for verification when this list was updated in July 2009: American Yugoslav Medical Society, Columbian Medical Society, Janusz Kurczak Medical Society, Medical Association of the US and Mexico, and Semmelweis Scientific Society. Please contact us at img@ama-assn.org if you have any questions about these organizations.
Additional medical associations defined by ethnicity or race
Association of American Indian Physicians
National Hispanic Medical Association
The three organizations listed above have memberships that consist predominately of U.S. medical graduates. For more minority physician resources, go to the Minority Affairs Consortium site.
