American Medical Association - Obama Presidency Oral History Back American Medical Association Index / Organizations Transcripts Robert Post ...and Gynecologists] and the American Medical Association or the American Academy of Pediatric... Ellen Weintraub ...or the pharmaceutical industry, or the AMA [American Medical Association], o... ...pharmaceutical industry, or the AMA [ American Medical Association ], or anybody else—or a consumer group... Craig Spencer ...read in your JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association ] article you wrote in 2015 that yo... Carolyn Britton ...was the immediate past president of the AMA [American Medical Association] comin... ...immediate past president of the AMA [ American Medical Association ] coming to NMA's annual meeting i... ...on—interestingly, in 2004, I think, the AMA , the NMA, and the Hispanic Medica... ...of the members in the NMA were in the AMA . So they set up that commission. An... ...Hill and testified on its behalf. The AMA fought it, okay? The South, and becaus... ...were very powerful within the AMA —they fought Medicare and Medicaid... ...this moment of unity between NMA and AMA in pushing for high-quality healthcar... ...really a signature moment. I think the AMA had made progress in some ways; the... ...NMA who were there, and after that the AMA president attended our meetings, w... ...that would be introduced in the AMA , and AMA resolutions similarly int... ...would be introduced in the AMA, and AMA resolutions similarly into the NMA... ...was a really important step, with the AMA , and it was really something. I'... ...around that. The big thing with the AMA was having it step up to the table fo... Show more... Gil Kerlikowske ...to deal with it. So we enlisted the AMA [American Medical Association], an... ...deal with it. So we enlisted the AMA [ American Medical Association ], and they became very helpful. Th... Vivek Murthy ...American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association . So everything I was saying was i... Andrew Stern ...Association, head of the AMA [American Medical Association], head o... ...Association, head of the AMA [ American Medical Association ], head of the nurse associatio... ...other relationships. The head of the AMA , they knew the head of the AHA—so i... Regina Benjamin ...to be elected to the board of the American Medical Association [AMA]. In 2002 she became president o... ...of the American Medical Association [ AMA ]. In 2002 she became president of th... ...passed. And Georgia delegation of the AMA took me to the AMA to speak to the sam... ...delegation of the AMA took me to the AMA to speak to the same issue, and th... ...then also serving on the board of the AMA , working in these larger nationa... ...other groups—the organizations, the AMA , every organization I could, you know... ...that I was serving. And through the AMA and other organizations I realized ... ...they're saying, “Yes, you usually go to AMA . You were easy to reach no matte... ...time? I was very involved with the American Medical Association . I had been the first person unde... ...pursuing? Over the years, through the AMA as well, we had supported othe... ...general change over time, and the AMA had some positions on what we felt wer... ...that hard. Again, I grew up through the American Medical Association . When I was elected to the board, i... ...so all of that is a public eye. And AMA has public campaigns, and so I was kin... ...kind of used to that. I always tell my AMA colleagues, there is no question ... ...to the medical community, and, as the AMA , we're communicating to the America... ...things that are policy. With the AMA with the administration, you alway... ...Fit Nation, I have a friend from the AMA , one of my medical colleagues, and sh... Show more... Related Topics go to the Democrats Democrats go to the Russia Russia go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Labor Labor