AMA announces Board of Trustees for 2019-2020

For the first time, AMA’s highest elected officers are women physicians

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CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) today 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. For the first time, the three highest elected AMA officers are women physicians.

Patrice A. Harris, M.D., M.A., a psychiatrist from Atlanta, was sworn in as the 174th president of the AMA. Dr. Harris is the first African-American woman to lead the nation’s largest physician organization.

Susan R. Bailey, M.D., an allergist and immunologist from Fort Worth, Texas, is the AMA’s new president-elect, while Barbara L. McAneny, M.D., an oncologist from Albuquerque, N.M., assumed the office of the AMA’s immediate past president.

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