interim meeting

Report of AMA’s Interim Meeting

The American Medical Association’s Interim Meeting was held in Houston November 6–10, 2009. More than a thousand delegates and alternate delegates debated 66 resolutions and 25 reports and heard many informational presentations. It was one of the most important meetings in more than a generation because of the simultaneous discussion in Congress about health system reform. Clearly that reform effort and the House and Senate bills that will make it happen were the major items of business at this meeting.

AMA I09 Report

The AMA Interim meeting was held in Houston November 6th through the 10th. Over a thousand delegates and alternate delegates debated 66 resolutions and 25 reports and heard many informational presentations. It was one of the most important meetings in more than a generation, because of the simultaneous discussion in Congress about health system reform. Clearly that reform effort and the House and Senate bills that will make it happen were the major items of business at this meeting.

AMA Interim Meeting

“Together we are stronger.” Our AMA’s new motto was introduced to the House of Delegates at its interim meeting in Atlanta as part of a multi-dimensional PR campaign that highlights the tremendous contribution America’s physicians make to our country. The delegates watched a moving and inspirational three-minute film reminding us all why we are physicians and how much we mean to others. As the House worked through its business of debating and creating policy, delegates were reminded that the likelihood of success in influencing others depends on the unity with which we speak.

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