AMA Annual Meeting to Convene on June 11 in Chicago

CHICAGO — The American Medical Assoc. (AMA) will gather physician and medical student leaders from all corners of medicine at its annual meeting June 11-15 in Chicago to discuss cutting-edge healthcare innovations and shape the healthcare agenda of the nation’s largest physician organization.

As the national organization whose reach and depth extends across all physicians, as well as policymakers, thought leaders, and medical schools, the AMA is uniquely positioned to deliver results-focused strategies that enable physicians to answer a national imperative to measurably improve the health of the nation.

The AMA’s house of delegates is the policy-making body at the center of American medicine, bringing together an inclusive group of physicians, medical students, and residents representing every state and medical field. Delegates will work in a democratic process to create a national physician consensus on emerging issues in public health, science, ethics, business, and government to continually provide safer, higher-quality, and more efficient care for patients and communities.

The issues to be addressed at the AMA annual meeting include ending the nation’s opioid epidemic, reporting lead and other contaminants in the public drinking-water supply, enhancing government support for Zika virus control and research, promoting paid sick leave as a public-health issue, discouraging non-medical use of ‘smart drugs’ in healthy individuals, delaying school start time to alleviate adolescent sleep deprivation, promoting the ethical practice of telemedicine, opposing consumer drug ad costs as a tax-deductible business expense, and banning the sale and distribution of powdered alcohol.