Topic in Focus: Health Care Equity

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Top 5 issues to watch at the 2018 AMA Interim Meeting

Track the big issues that physicians, residents and medical students will consider at their meeting Nov. 8–13 in National Harbor, Maryland.

Interim Meeting
Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE
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Kavita Shah Arora, MD: Improving health, reducing disparities

AMA member Kavita Shah Arora, MD, applies evidence-based medicine and research to health care policy to improve health and reduce disparities.

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AMA announces medical student winners of 2018 Global Health Challenge

AMA and AMA Insurance Agency announced medical students from California Northstate University, College of Medicine won the 2018 AMA Global Health Challenge.

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Untangling the medical ethics of prescribing opioids

Patient-centered decision-making can help physicians resolve ethical issues in pain management that arise when prescribing opioids or treating substance-use disorder.

Ethics
Internist Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD
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2 ways to spark change in minority patients and prevent diabetes

Longtime AMA member Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD, talks about how to manage patients with prediabetes and diabetes to improve health outcomes for minority patients.

Health Equity
Kelly Landeen, MD, otolaryngology resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Kelly Landeen, MD: A military family set the example to serve

AMA member Kelly Landeen, MD, learned the importance of service early in life and acts on it by helping patients through advocacy.

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New policies adopted on segregation, homelessness

Racial segregation in housing and chronic homelessness are detrimental to health and contribute to disparities.

Health Equity
Moudi Hubeishy, medical student
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Moudi Hubeishy: Helping patients wherever they are

AMA member Moudi Hubeishy is still a medical student, but he is already directing a street-medicine program that delivers medical help to homeless people in Buffalo.

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AMA adopts new public health policies to improve health of nation

AMA voted to adopt new policies aimed at improving the health of the nation. The new policies were approved during the voting session of the Annual Meeting.

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