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The Minority Affairs Consortium Governing Council

The American Medical Association Minority Affairs Consortium (MAC) is guided by a nine-member Governing Council that includes three at-large members and one representative each from the AMA Medical Student Section, the Resident and Fellows Section, and the Young Physicians Section. The MAC also maintains an ongoing liaison with national ethnic medical associations through the three positions reserved for the National Hispanic Medical Association, National Medical Association, and the Association of American Indian Physicians.

The MAC Governing Council invites you to join the MAC today!

MAC goals and objectives

• Increase the number of underrepresented minority medical students and physicians.
• Provide AMA forum for networking and grassroots advocacy on minority issues.
• Eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities and improve the status of minority health in the US.
• Promote workforce diversity and cultural competence in the profession.
• Expand the number and influence of minority physicians in the AMA.
• Encourage cooperation and collaboration with minority physician medical
  associations and other relevant organizations.
• Provide advice/counsel on minority issues to the AMA Board of Trustees and Councils.

The MAC Governing Council Members:

Ada Stewart, MD, RPh
MAC  Chair
YPS Representative
Columbia, South Carolina

Shanda Lohse, MD
MAC Vice-Chair
Association of American Indian Physicians Representative
Specialty: Family Medicine
Chugiak, AK

Diana Ramos, MD, MPH
MAC Delegate
At-Large representative
Specialty: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Laguna Beach, Calif.

Antonio Delgado, MD
National Hispanic Medical Association Representative
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Chicago, Ill.

Sandra L. Gadson, MD
National Medical Association Representative
Specialty: Nephrology
Flossmoor, Ill.

Busayo Obayan
MSS Representative
Brighton, MA

Shubhada B. Hooli, MD
Resident and Fellow Section Representative
Specialty: Pediatrics
Washignton, DC

Alice A.T. Coombs, MD, FCCP
At-Large Representative
Specialty: Internal Medicine/Anesthesiology
Sharon, Mass.

J. Renee Chapman Navarro, MD
At-Large Representative
Specialty: Anesthesiology
San Francisco, Calif.

The MAC Governing Council can be contacted by sending an e-mail to mac@ama-assn.org.