Our writers

Damon Adams is editor of the Professional Issues section. 312-464-5411 (damon.adams@ama-assn.org) email

Emily Berry covers health plans and practice management issues. 312-464-4424 (emily.berry@ama-assn.org) email

Bob Cook is editor of the Business section. 312-464-4434 (bob.cook@ama-assn.org) email

Pamela Lewis Dolan covers health information technology. 312-464-5412 (pamela.dolan@ama-assn.org) email

Victoria Stagg Elliott covers practice management issues. She covered public health and science during 2000-09. 312-464-5577 (victoria.elliott@ama-assn.org) email

Charles Fiegl covers Medicare issues. 202-789-7497 (charles.fiegl@ama-assn.org) email

Alicia Gallegos covers legal issues. 312-464-4426 (alicia.gallegos@ama-assn.org) email

David Glendinning is editor of the Government section. 202-789-7422 (david.glendinning@ama-assn.org) email

Tanya Albert Henry, a longtime staff member, was the editor of the Professional Issues section and deputy editor of American Medical News.

Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist in Lexington, Ky., is chair of the AMA Board of Trustees. Learn more about her on the AMA bio page or contact her by email

Carolyne Krupa covers medical education, scope of practice and physician work force issues. 312-464-4829 (carolyne.krupa@ama-assn.org) email

Susan J. Landers, a longtime staff member, covered medical schools, residencies, scope of practice, continuing medical education, work force issues and public health.

Christine S. Moyer covers clinical issues, health and science. 312-464-5407 (christine.moyer@ama-assn.org) email

Kevin B. O'Reilly covers medical ethics, patient safety and health care quality improvement. 312-464-4489 (kevin.oreilly@ama-assn.org) email

Amy Lynn Sorrel covered legal, antitrust, fraud and liability issues from 2005 to 2010, and continues to write the In the Courts column.

Doug Trapp covered the uninsured, Medicaid, the federal budget and state health reforms in Washington during 2006-12.

Cecil B. Wilson, MD, an internist in private practice in Winter Park, Fla., is AMA president and served as chair of the AMA Board of Trustees during 2006-07. Learn more about him on the AMA bio page or contact him by email