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AMA Board of Trustees

Find 2020 HOD meeting agenda and resolutions and reports

David O. Barbe, MD, MHA, new president of the World Medical Association

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Southern California medical student elected to AMA Board of Trustees

Drayton C. Harvey will assume office at the conclusion of the AMA’s Annual Meeting in June 2021.
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Opioids

AMA to push for better access to opioid-use disorder treatments

The AMA will advocate sustained funding for evidence-based care and support research to help bring more treatments into the primary care setting.

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AMA policy recognizes police brutality as product of structural racism

New policy recognizes police brutality as a manifestation of structural racism disproportionately impacting Black, Indigenous, and other people of color.
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Patient Support & Advocacy

Include all credentialed physicians in hospital find-a-doctor searches

Some independently practicing physicians have been wrongly excluded. These search functions should operate in a fair, equal and unbiased fashion.
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Board of Trustees

Doctors: FDA must keep public trust without losing best experts

The AMA says there needs to be a balancing act when it comes to the FDA’s deciding which conflicts of interest can be waived for experts who offer advice to the agency.

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