The Presidents Drs Carolyn Britton, MD, MS, of the NMA and Nancy Nielsen, MD, PhD, of the AMA: An Interview

摘要

In this edition, we are privileged to have interviewed the current presidents of the National Medical Association (NMA), founded in 1895, and the American Medical Association (AMA), founded in 1847. Drs. Carolyn Britton of the NMA and Nancy Nielsen of the AMA are the 109th and 163rd presidents of their respective organizations. As part of the reconciliation efforts begun by the issuance of a formal apology by the AMA to the nations' African American physicians and the NMA, as they relate to our collective American racial history, we felt it important to include in this process the views of both organizations' presidents. And it just so happens that in this time both presidents happen to be women. The NMA elected its first female president (Edith Erby-Jones, MD) in 1985 and, as of today, they have selected 9 female presidents. The AMA selected its first female president (Nancy Dickey, MD) in 1998, with Dr. Nielsen serving as the second female president ever in AMA history.