Missouri physician chosen as AMA president-elect

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Physicians gathered at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) today voted for David O. Barbe, M.D., M.H.A., a family physician from Mountain Grove, Mo., to be the next president-elect of the nation's premier physician organization. Following a year-long term as president-elect, Dr. Barbe will assume the office of AMA president in June 2017.

"It is a tremendous honor and privilege to be elected by my peers to be president-elect of an organization that is dedicated to improving the practice environment for physicians, the education of our medical students and the health of the patients we serve," said Dr. Barbe. "I am eager to continue the strong work of the AMA in shaping America's health care system to better meet the needs of patients and physicians both now and in the future."

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