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National Medical Association
Formation1895
HeadquartersSilver Spring, Maryland
Location
  • United States
Membership
African American Physicians
Official language
English
President
Rachel Villanueva
Websitewww.nmanet.org

The National Medical Association (NMA) is the largest and oldest organization representing African American physicians and their patients in the United States. As a 501(c)(3) national professional and scientific organization, the NMA represents the interests of over 30,000 African American physicians and their patients, with nearly 112 affiliated societies throughout the nation and U.S. territories. Through its membership, professional growth, community health education, advocacy, research, and collaborations with public and private organizations, the organization is dedicated to enhancing the quality of health among minorities and underprivileged people. Throughout its history, the NMA has primarily focused on health issues related to African Americans and medically underserved populations. However, its principles, goals, initiatives, and philosophy encompass all ethnic groups

Conceived in no spirit of racial exclusiveness, fostering no ethnic antagonism, but born of the exigencies of the American environment, the National Medical Association has for its object the banding together for mutual cooperation and helpfulness, the men and women of African descent who are legally and honorably engaged in the practice of the cognate professions of medicine, surgery, pharmacy and dentistry.
— C.V. Roman, M.D. NMA Founding Member and First Editor of the Journal of the National Medical Association (NMA) 1908[1]

History

During the

Robert F. Boyd, and Daniel Hale Williams served as the vice president.[3]

National health insurance

The NMA, dedicated to promoting the interests of those of "African Descent", contributed to the national health insurance dialogue from 1900 to 1950. Despite its rather marginal size, starting in the mid-1910s, the NMA advocated compulsory health insurance. Primarily, the association sought any means that provided medical care for African Americans. As an association, however, it also sought to promote the interests of the African American physicians themselves.

From the mid-1910s to the late 1940s, the

practitioner-patient relationship
. Struggling between providing medical care for African Americans as well as maintaining the voice of African American physicians, the NMA was internally divided on these issues from the late 1930s-early 1950s.

During this time period, the NMA leadership repeatedly stated their support for a national health insurance scheme through the Journal of the National Medical Association as well as newspapers like the Chicago Defender. At the same time, rank-and-file members, desirous to practice medicine, supported the AMA's proposals. Indeed, during the height of the health insurance debates from 1946 to 1950, the AMA often sent guest speakers to the NMA's conferences. Such AMA officials promised the NMA membership in their ranks as well as the right to practice medicine. Yet the NMA's leadership largely resisted the AMA's efforts. NMA presidents like Drs.

KKK
during 1946–50).

By the early 1950s, the NMA still did not possess a consensual platform concerning health insurance. Internally torn about the best methods to promote their own professional ambitions as well as the interests of African American patients, the health insurance topic remained a divisive one. Still, members of the NMA offered resistance to the AMA's promotion of voluntary health insurance when few medical practitioners dared to.

In the late 1950s, the NMA took a more active interest in civil rights under the leadership of its president, T. R. M. Howard, a surgeon from Mississippi. In the months after his election as president, Howard had played a key role in the search for evidence and witnesses in the Emmett Till murder case and led the largest civil rights organization in the state, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. In 1957, under his leadership, the NMA organized the Imhotep National Conference on Hospital Integration which publicized and challenged continuing hospital segregation in both the North and South.[4]

NMA Convention and Scientific Assembly

Marcia Fudge speaking at the 2017 annual NMA conference

Nearly every year since its founding in 1895, the NMA has held the Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly, which is regarded as the nation's foremost forum on medical science and African American health. The NMA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education.

Through the presentation of CME programs at the national and regional conventions, as well as at state and local society meetings, NMA members are able to meet Category 1 requirements for the Physician's Achievement Award of the NMA and the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association (AMA). The NMA offers CME programs in 23 specialties—from

aerospace medicine to urology.[5]

Program awareness

The NMA has conducted national consumer awareness programs in

secondhand smoke, smoking cessation and immunizations. Further, the work of the NMA and its members has received national exposure on NBC, ABC, FOX and CNN television stations, as well as numerous radio and major print media each year.[6]

Journal of the National Medical Association

The official journal of the National Medical Association, Journal of the National Medical Association, began publication in 1908 soon after the founding of the NMA with C. V. Roman as first editor. Currently under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Edith P. Mitchell, MD, MACP, FCPP, it is a peer-reviewed publication whose purpose is to address medical care disparities of persons of African descent.[7]

List of presidents

  1. Robert F. Boyd (1895 to 1898)[8][9]
  2. H. T. Noel (1895 to 1900)[8][9]
  3. O. D. Porter (1901 to 1902)[9]
  4. F. A. Stewart (1903)[8][9]
  5. Charles Victor Roman (1904)[8][9]
  6. John E. Hunter (1905)[8][9]
  7. R. E. Jones (1906)[8][9]
  8. Nathan Francis Mossell (1907)[8][9]
  9. W. H. Wright (1908)[8][9]
  10. P. A. Johnson (1909)[8][9]
  11. Marcus F. Wheatland (1910)[8][9]
  12. Austin M. Curtis (1911)[8][9]
  13. H. F. Gamble (1912)[8][9]
  14. John A. Kenney (1913)[9]
  15. A. M. Brown (1914)[9]
  16. F. S. Hargraves (1915)[9]
  17. Ulysses Grant Dailey (1916)[9][10]
  18. D. W. Byrd (1917)[9]
  19. George W. Cabaniss (1918)[9]
  20. D. A. Ferguson (1919)[9]
  21. J. W. Jones (1920)[9]
  22. John P. Turner (1921)[9]
  23. Henry Morgan Green (1922)[11][9]
  24. J. Edward Perry (1923)[9]
  25. John O. Plummer (1924)[9]
  26. Michael Q. Dumas (1925)[9]
  27. Walter G. Alexander (1926)[9]
  28. Carl G. Roberts (1927)[9]
  29. C. V. Freeman (1928)[9]
  30. Thomas Spotuas Burwell (1929)[9][12]
  31. L. A. West (1930)[9]
  32. W. H. Higgins (1931)[9]
  33. Peter Marshall Murray (1932)[9]
  34. C. Hamilton Francis (1933)[9]
  35. Midian O. Bousfield (1934)[9]
  36. John H. Hale (1935)[9]
  37. W. Harry Barnes (1936)[9]
  38. Roscoe Conkling Giles (1937)[9]
  39. Lyndon M. Hills (1938)[9]
  40. George W. Bowles (1939)[9]
  41. Albert W. Dumas (1940)[9]
  42. Kenneth W. Clement (1941)[9]
  43. Arthur M. Vaughn (1942)[9]
  44. Henry Eugene Lee (1943)[9]
  45. T. Manuel Smith (1944–1945)[9]
  46. Emory I. Robinson (1946)[9]
  47. Walter M. Young (1947)[9]
  48. J.A.C. Larrimore (1948)[9]
  49. C. Austin Whittier (1949)[9]
  50. C. Herbert Marshall (1950)[9]
  51. Henry H. Walker (1951)[9]
  52. Joseph G. Gathering (1952)[9]
  53. Witter C. Atkinson (1953)[9]

References

  1. ^ Historical Manifesto National Medical Association retrieved 2017-10-09
  2. ISBN 9781610750721
    .
  3. PMID 20147673
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  4. ^ History National Medical Association retrieved 2017-10-09
  5. ^ Benefits of Membership at the NMA National Medical Association retrieved 2017-10-09
  6. ^ Benefits of Membership at the NMA National Medical Association retrieved 2010-07-21
  7. ^ "Journal of the National Medical Association". Elsevier B.V. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  8. ^
    PMID 20891312
    .
  9. ^
    ISBN 9783030419608
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  10. ^ "Celebrating Black History: Ulysses G. Dailey, MD". Northwestern Medicine. Northwestern University. February 19, 2021.
  11. The Knoxville News-Sentinel
    . p. 13. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  12. PMC 2624174
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