AMA president calls for common sense, solutions to reduce gun violence

CHICAGO — In his remarks to the opening session of the American Medical Association (AMA) Annual Meeting, AMA President David O. Barbe, M.D., issued an urgent call to action for physician leadership to reduce gun violence. Two years after the AMA declared gun violence a public health crisis, and as more than 30,000 Americans continue to die annually from gun violence, Dr. Barbe reiterated the AMA’s decades of leadership on the issue and outlined why physicians have a responsibility to lead.