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AMA announces Board of Trustees for 2019-2020

AMA introduced the 21 members of its Board of Trustees for the coming year following elections held during the Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates.

Delegates at AMA Annual Meeting

Population Care

Physicians support paid parental leave to boost health outcomes

Increases in paid parental leave linked to lower perinatal, neonatal, post-neonatal, infant and child mortality. More employers should step up, the AMA says.

Delegates at the AMA Annual Meeting

Patient Support & Advocacy

Homeless people need more help, not stays in jail: AMA

People living on the streets are at higher risk of health problems, and laws that criminalize their existence only worsen their troubles.

Portrait of Willarda V. Edwards.

Board of Trustees

Willarda V. Edwards, MD, MBA

Willarda V. Edwards, MD, MBA, is a member on the Board of Trustees and the AMA Foundation board at the American Medical Association.
Portrait of Patrice Harris

Board of Trustees

Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA

Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, a psychiatrist from Atlanta, became the 174th president of the American Medical Association in June 2019, and the organization’s first African-American woman to hold this position.

Portrait of Susan Bailey.

Board of Trustees

Susan R. Bailey, MD

Susan R. Bailey, MD, an allergist/immunologist from Fort Worth, Texas, was elected president-elect of the American Medical Association in June 2019.

Barbara L. McAneny, MD

Board of Trustees

Barbara L. McAneny, MD

Barbara L. McAneny, MD, a board-certified medical oncologist/hematologist from Albuquerque, N.M., became the 173rd president of the American Medical Association in June 2018.

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