AMA honors Colorado Medical Executive with Lifetime Achievement Award

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The American Medical Association (AMA) honored Alfred Gilchrist, chief executive officer of the Colorado Medical Society (CMS), with the Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award. This award honors a medical association executive who has contributed substantially to the goals and ideals of the medical profession. 

“A brilliant leader, strategist, team builder, and advocate for patients and medicine, Alfred Gilchrist has led CMS through an unprecedented period of advocacy and growth,” said AMA President Barbara L. McAneny, M.D. “He succeeded in advocating for Medicaid expansion and stabilizing medical liability climates. And his tireless work to prevent insurance mergers that would have harmed patients and physicians alike, was instrumental in their defeat.”