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meeting in Chicago. Dr. Bailey was one of three Texas physicians to win election to key AMA posts.
TMA Immediate Past President Susan Rudd Bailey, MD, was elected vice speaker of the American Medical Association House of Delegates in June. She said she would work to “help ensure that this house of medicine is the vibrant voice of our profession that our country so desperately needs to hear.”
Dr. Bailey climbs AMA leadership ladder amid discord in house
BY STEVE LEVINE, TMA VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS Perhaps one of the first
tasks facing Susan Rudd Bailey, MD, is unifying the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates, who elected her as vice speaker at a meeting that was sharply, philosophically divided over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. More than 100 Texas physicians, residents, and medical students representing TMA, various sections, and national specialty societies participated in the June 18–21
Fast track As vice speaker, Dr. Bailey joins fellow Texan Joe Annis, MD, as a member of the AMA Board of Trustees and is now on what historically has been a track to- ward becoming AMA president. “I’m excited to have the opportunity to … help ensure that this house of medicine is the vibrant voice of our pro- fession that our country so desperately needs to hear,” the former Texas Medical Association president said after the elec- tion results were announced. Dallas internist Lynne Kirk, MD, won a contested race for the AMA Council on Medical Education, and Houston’s Rus- sell W.H. Kridel, MD, won his race for re- election to the AMA Council on Science and Public Health. Responding to two last-minute openings on AMA councils, Dawn Buckingham, MD, and Kenneth L. Mattox, MD, willingly threw their hats into the ring. Although neither Dr. Mat- tox, a trauma surgeon from Houston, nor Dr. Buckingham, an Austin ophthal- mologist, won their races, they ran well and displayed TMA’s “bench strength” in Chicago.
In addition, three young Texans
racked up leadership positions in the AMA Medical Student Section (MSS). The new AMA MSS Region III chair is Abhinav Khanna, a second-year student at Baylor College of Medicine. Mary Mc- Farland, a second-year student at Texas A&M University Medical School, was elected Region III community services chair; and Rikki Baldwin, a second-year
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TED GRUDZINSKI
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