The International Medical Graduates (IMG) Section celebrated its 18th year of the section’s annual meetings, beginning with a joint AMA-IMG Section and Minority Affairs Section Board of Trustees Candidates Forum on Friday.
The section meeting on Saturday featured two excellent speakers. First, Lisa Cover, vice president of business operations at the Educational Commission on Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), provided an update on the commission’s work.
Next, Gamini Soori, MD, vice chair of the AMA Council on Long Range Planning and Development gave a talk on a very timely topic: Graduate medical education in crisis. Members also discussed various AMA House of Delegates reports and resolutions, and several AMA-IMG Section representatives gave organizational reports.
Members ratified the 2015-2016 AMA-IMG Governing Council, including:
- June-Anne Gold, MD, chair
- Lt. Colonel Ronit Katz, MD, immediate past chair
- Bhushan Pandya, MD, chair-elect
- Ved Gossain, MD, delegate
- Giovanni Campanile, MD, alternate delegate
- Rashi Aggarwal, MD, member at large
- Sumir Sahgal, MD, member at large
- Subhash Chandra, MD, resident/fellow member
On Saturday evening, the section hosted its 9th Annual Desserts From Around the World Reception, which attracted more 400 attendees who enjoyed various international desserts and an energized performance by the Borozda dancers, a Chicago-based Hungarian dance troupe.
On Monday, the meeting culminated with the Busharat Ahmad, MD, Leadership Development Program on “Loss of Physician Leadership in our Changing Health Care Environment and How to Increase Physician Satisfaction.” The three speakers included Christine Sinsky, MD, AMA vice president of professional satisfaction and two speakers from Evolent Health: Lisa Shah, MD, senior vice president of practice optimization and Lisa Sasko, vice president of physician alignment and program innovation.
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