WPS Members and News Highlights-December 2025

A note from the WPS chair

Elisa Choi, MD

December 2025

From WPS Chair Elisa Choi, MD

2025 Interim Meeting

Hello AMAzing WPS! It was wonderful to see many of you in person, after numerous virtual communications in preceding weeks, at the AMA Interim Meeting (I-25) in November. Our WPS business meeting provided opportunities for engagement and interaction via breakout session discussions and interactive overview of the WPS policies and resolutions supported by our section. 

One program our WPS Governing Council (GC) is proud to have supported and co-sponsored was our joint CME education event at I-25, “Responding to DEI Policy Reversals–Impact on Health Equity, Education, Research, Workforce and Patient Care,” in collaboration with the Underrepresented in Medicine Advocacy Section (UMAS) and LGBTQ+ Section. This tri-section partnership was collegial, fruitful and energizing, and our WPS looks forward to future opportunities to join with other sections/delegations for upcoming programming. 

For those who participated in this education session, the deadline to claim CME credit or Certificate of Participation is Dec. 31, 2025. Visit the Interim Meeting education page for more details. 

Left to right: LeeAnna Muzquiz, MD (UMAS vice chair); Norma Poll-Hunter, PhD (program speaker); Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE, MS (program speaker); Joseph Wright, MD, MPH (program speaker); Elisa Choi, MD (WPS chair); Shail Maingi, MD (LGBTQ+ Section chair).

Review the full agenda for the 2025 WPS Interim Meeting. 

I-25 also provided an occasion for our GC to refresh our in-person connections. We enjoyed the chance to spend time together and meet other current and former section governing council members at the AMA Section Governing Council alumni reception.

Left to right: Harley Grant (WPS director); Rachel Solnick, MD, MSc (WPS alternate delegate); Shazia Pathan, MD (WPS delegate); Ariella Wagner (WPS Medical Student Section representative); Avani Patel, MD, MHA (WPS Young Physicians Section representative); Elisa Choi, MD (WPS chair/member-at-large); Holly Grace, MD (Resident & Fellow Section representative).

Strategic goals

As the WPS Governing Council reflects on our accomplishments for this first half of 2025-26, I remind myself of our strategic goals, generated collectively by our GC at the Section Leadership Retreat in August:

1. Increase WPS collaborations with AMA sections, state societies, and AMA delegations
2. Increase WPS impact and education on women’s health and leadership
3. Increase WPS member engagement

Join our governing council in advancing these priorities and engage with our WPS!

Contact and connect with the WPS

Holiday and New Year’s wishes to you as we begin to close out 2025 and welcome 2026! 

The 5 As (“straight As”!)―Action, Activism, Advancement, Advocacy, Achievement will continue to guide our WPS this year.

Visit the Women Physicians Section (WPS) leadership opportunities page to learn more about opportunities to engage with our WPS. Keep in touch with us by joining the WPS GroupMe chat, or email us at [email protected].