AMA announces Board of Trustees for 2018-2019

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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.

Barbara L. McAneny, M.D., an oncologist from Albuquerque, N.M., was sworn in as the 173rd president of the AMA. In leading the nation’s largest physician organization, Dr. McAneny will focus her tenure on the AMA’s three strategic arcs: attacking the dysfunction in health care by removing obstacles and barriers that interfere with patient care; reimagining medical education, training and lifelong learning to help physicians adapt and grow in the digital age; and improving the health of the nation by confronting the increasing chronic disease burden.

 

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