AMA House of Delegates
AMA selects president-elect, board members
■ Jeremy A. Lazarus, MD, was named president-elect.
By Damon Adams — Posted July 4, 2011
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Chicago -- Peter W. Carmel, MD, a Newark, N.J., pediatric neurosurgeon, was inaugurated as the 166th president of the AMA during the Annual Meeting in June.
Denver psychiatrist Jeremy A. Lazarus, MD, was named president-elect. McLean, Va., obstetrician-gynecologist Robert M. Wah, MD, became chair of the Board of Trustees. Mountain Grove, Mo., family physician David O. Barbe, MD, was named secretary.
Hollidaysburg, Pa., orthopedic surgeon Andrew W. Gurman, MD, was elected speaker of the House of Delegates.
Susan R. Bailey, MD, an allergist, immunologist and pediatrician from Fort Worth, Texas, is the new vice speaker.
Elected to the board were Alexander Ding, MD, a resident in diagnostic radiology from Boston; Atlanta psychiatrist Patrice A. Harris, MD; Albert T. Osbahr, MD, a family and occupational physician from Hickory, N.C.; Lebanon, N.H., dermatologist Georgia A. Tuttle, MD; Portland, Ore., pediatric neurosurgeon Monica C. Wehby, MD; and Jordan M. VanLare, a student at the College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City.