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Leadership

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Members Move Medicine: Seeking better path for physicians

AMA member Ronald Vender, MD, professor of medicine and chief medical officer, Yale Medicine, says physicians need the strength and resilience to persevere in their efforts to put patient care first.
Christopher Clifford, AMA’s Government Relations Advocacy Fellow

Leadership

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Christopher Clifford, MD: Looking out for those who need help

AMA member Christopher Clifford is helping develop an office of minority health and equity to advocate for some of Nevada’s most vulnerable patients.
Tiffani L. Bell, MD

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Tiffani L. Bell, MD: Caring for the whole child

AMA member Tiffani L. Bell, MD, is working to marry training in obesity medicine and child and adolescent psychiatry to serve the whole patient. She also encourages other underrepresented minorities to pursue medicine.
Grayson W. Armstrong, MD, MPH

Leadership

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Grayson W. Armstrong, MD, MPH: Eyes out for medicine’s future

AMA member Grayson W. Armstrong, MD, MPH, drew inspiration from a physician who saved his sister’s sight. Now he is working with telemedicine to bring eye care to those who need it, wherever they are.
Ann R. Stroink, MD

Leadership

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Ann Stroink, MD: Breaking down barriers to care

AMA member Ann R. Stroink, MD, started a nonprofit to help educate the public, physicians and scientists on neuroscience.
Marilyn J. Heine, MD

Leadership

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Marilyn J. Heine, MD: The tenacity to improve health care

AMA member Marilyn J. Heine, MD, builds relationships with policymakers to put health system problems on their radar and make those issues real.
Brandi Ring, MD

Leadership

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Brandi Ring, MD: Giving voice to patients in need

AMA member and ob-gyn Brandi Ring, MD, sees patients at their best and at their worst. Their reality gives life to her push for safer, more affordable, more sustainable health care.

USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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Kaplan USMLE Step 1 prep: Which receptor types cause respiratory change?

A patient undergoing pulmonary function testing sees changes in respiratory capacity when inhaling a drug. Which receptor types are responsible?