James L. Madara, MD, is CEO of the American Medical Association. The AMA is the largest physicians’ organization and has as its mission the promotion of “the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.” The AMA publishes 11 journals (including JAMA, the widest circulating general medicine journal worldwide), convenes the nation’s 185 medical societies, oversees the nation’s procedural code sets used for billing (CPT), produces the majority of clinical quality measures used by the federal government, maintains the nation’s masterfile of American physicians, and offers multiple busine...read more