REPORT OF TEXAS DELEGATION TO THE AMA
TEXDEL Report 1-A-06
Subject: AMA Membership, Representation, and Leadership
Presented by: Susan Rudd Bailey, MD, Chair
Preliminary end of year numbers provided by the AMA show that as of Dec. 31, 2005, Texas physician and medical student membership in the American Medical Association, including those who joined the AMA directly, experienced an increase of 125 members. AMA membership totaled 17,800 compared to 17,675 at the same time last year. TMA remains committed to a strong unified voice for organized medicine and continues to support AMA marketing activities.
Representation in AMA
Numerous Texas physicians and medical students hold positions of leadership within the AMA organizational structure. Texas physicians served on six of the AMA's seven elected and appointed councils during 2004; Texas physicians also serve on the AMA Board of Trustees and the AMPAC board.
Texans holding elected or appointed positions on AMA entities include: J. James Rohack, MD, AMA Board of Trustees; Pricilla Ray, MD, vice chair, Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs; Carolyn A. Evans, MD, Council on Long Range Planning and Development; William G. Gamel, MD, chair, Council on Legislation; Susan Rudd Bailey, MD, Council on Medical Education; Joseph P. Annis, MD, chair, Council on Medical Service; E. Randy Eckert, MD, Council on Scientific Affairs; Sheldon G. Gross, MD, AMPAC board. In addition, Josie R. Williams, MD, serves on the National Patient Safety Foundation Board and Norman H. Chenven, MD, serves on the Advisory Committee on Group Practice Physicians.
In addition to the 20 delegates and 20 alternate delegates representing the Texas Medical Association in the AMA House of Delegates in 2004, many other Texas physicians served in the AMA House. Delegates and Alternate Delegates were Russell W.H. Kridel, MD, American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Glen R. Johnson, MD, and Dale C. Moquist, MD, American Academy of Family Physicians; Dennis S. Pacl, MD, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine; Rodney C. Richie, MD, American Academy of Insurance Medicine; Andrew O. Jamieson, MD, American Academy of Sleep Medicine; Mark J. Kubala, MD, American Association of Neurological Surgeons; Harris M. Hauser, MD, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society; Alnoor Malick, MD, American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; Raymond C. Lewandowski, MD, American College of Medical Genetics; Bruno P. Granwehr, MD, Isabel V. Hoverman, MD, Lynne Kirk, MD, and George P. Hemstreet IV, MD, American College of Physicians; John Early, MD, American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society; Fred B. Kessler, MD, American Society for Surgery of the Hand; James F. Arens, MD, and John M. Zerwas, MD, American Society of Anesthesiologists; Clifford Simmang, MD, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons; John Harrington, MD, American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons; E. Randy Eckert, MD, College of American Pathologists; David Genecov, MD, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; Edward J. Septimus, MD, Infectious Disease Society of America; Zoltan Trizna, MD, American Academy of Dermatology; Bradley Marple, MD, American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy; Melissa J. Garretson, MD, American Academy of Pediatrics; Milton V. Guiberteau, MD, American College of Radiology; Pedro Ruiz, MD, and Paul H. Wick, MD, American Psychiatric Association; Joseph S. Bailes, MD, American Society of Clinical Oncology; Hugh Lamensdorf, MD, American Urological Association; Susan M. Strate, MD, College of American Pathologists; and Claire Tibiletti, MD, International Spinal Injection Society. Texans serving as ex officio members of the AMA House of Delegates were past presidents Nancy W. Dickey, MD, and Joseph T. Painter, MD, and former Board of Trustees member Charles Max Cole, MD. Medical students Margaret Seater and Scott Chaiet served as Region III delegates. Texas physicians and students also served on various AMA residency review committees, section councils, and editorial boards.
2006 Officers and Leadership
At its Feb. 4 meeting, the delegation elected Susan Rudd Bailey, MD, as chair, and C. Bruce Malone, MD, and Lyle S. Thorstenson, MD, as co-vice chairs. Frederick L. Merian, MD, and Bohn D. Allen, MD, were re-elected as at-large members of the Delegate Review Committee.
Chairing delegation standing committees in 2006 are David C. Fleeger, MD, Awards and Recognition; Josie R. Williams, MD, Communications; Stephen L. Brotherton, MD, Delegation Affairs; Robert T. Gunby Jr., MD, Membership; and Robert W. Morrow, MD, Nominations.
TMA House of Delegates: TexMed 2006