AMA Leadership

Raw data not enough to determine physician competency

Patients should have access to reliable information about physicians’ competency. State regulatory agencies ─ not raw data from Practitioner Data Bank ─ are best positioned to offer well-balanced information.

Feb 17, 2016 ·

4 Min Read

A call to action: Physicians must turn the tide of the opioid epidemic

AMA president cites alarming increase in deaths due to opioid epidemic and calls on physicians to lead the battle to end the crisis. He outlines 5 steps physicians can take to turn the tide.

Jan 21, 2016 ·

5 Min Read

How to prevent diabetes from sneaking up on your patients

Physicians are the key to addressing prediabetes in patients. AMA has launched a campaign to help physicians prevent diabetes by following the model of screen, test and act today. Help reduce rates of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Jan 11, 2016 ·

How physicians and Silicon Valley are working to transform health care

Would it surprise you if I said that the nation’s medical profession and those at the cutting-edge of technological innovation now have a common purpose?

Jan 8, 2016 ·

5 Min Read

What ails the medical profession—and ways to heal it

As more than one-half of the medical community suffers from burnout, it’s time to heal the profession. The AMA and several medical societies offer resources to promote physician wellness.

Dec 15, 2015 ·

4 Min Read

Why I serve: A profile of AMA leaders in medical education

Physicians are spurring new changes in organized medicine as leaders at the AMA. Donald Eckhoff, MD., discusses why he volunteered to serve the AMA and how it’s helping him improve medical education.

Nov 23, 2015 ·

4 Min Read

The difficult science you might not know--but should

Future physicians must learn how to deliver high-value care that achieves good patient outcomes at a reasonable cost—and simultaneously upholds the primacy of the patient-physician relationship.

Nov 14, 2015 ·

Standing together, physicians welcome and lead change: AMA CEO

“The American health care system evolves at a pace that would not have seemed possible not too long ago,” AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD, said in his address Saturday at the 2015 AMA Interim Meeting.

Nov 9, 2015 ·

Now comes the hard part: Turning national attention into action

We know that more than 24,000 Americans die from a prescription opioid or heroin-related overdose every year. Last month in Charleston, the president, the AMA and dozens of national and local organizations from across the country pledged to take action.