PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1847 in Philadelphia by Nathan Smith Davis, a member of the New York Medical Society. The AMA's present mission is "to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health."

Official Website:
http://www.ama-assn.org/

Location:
Chicago, IL

Founding Date:
5-May-1847

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Neal D. Barnard	Doctor	?		Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
John Barrasso	Politician	21-Jul-1952		US Senator from Wyoming
Regina Benjamin	Doctor	26-Oct-1956		US Surgeon General
Robert O. Blood	Politician	10-Nov-1887	3-Aug-1975	Governor of New Hampshire, 1941-45
Otis R. Bowen	Politician	26-Feb-1918	4-May-2013	Governor of Indiana, 1973-81
Mary Calderone	Activist	1-Jul-1904	24-Oct-1998	Questions and Answers about Love and Sex
Walter Bradford Cannon	Scientist	19-Oct-1871	1-Oct-1945	Fight or flight response
Scott DesJarlais	Politician	21-Feb-1964		Congressman, Tennessee 4th
Randolph M. Ferlic	Doctor	17-Jul-1936		Thoracic surgeon
Joseph I. France	Politician	11-Oct-1873	26-Jan-1939	US Senator from Maryland, 1917-23
John H. Gibbon, Jr.	Doctor	29-Sep-1903	5-Feb-1973	Open-heart surgery
Lee Goldman	Doctor	6-Jan-1948		Goldman Index for cardiac risk
William C. Gorgas	Doctor	3-Oct-1854	3-Jul-1920	Malaria and yellow fever
David Hager	Doctor	c. 1946		Gynecologist, conservative activist
Lamartine G. Hardman	Politician	14-Apr-1856	18-Feb-1937	Governor of Georgia, 1927-31
Bernard A. Harris, Jr.	Astronaut	26-Jun-1956		First black astronaut to spacewalk
Philip S. Hench	Scientist	28-Feb-1896	30-Mar-1965	Adrenocortical hormones
John Harvey Kellogg	Doctor	26-Feb-1852	14-Dec-1943	Battle Creek Sanitarium
Arthur Kornberg	Scientist	3-Mar-1918	26-Oct-2007	Synthesized DNA
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
Dickinson W. Richards	Scientist	30-Oct-1895	23-Feb-1973	Cardiac catheterization
C. A. Robins	Politician	8-Dec-1884	20-Sep-1970	Governor of Idaho, 1947-51
J. Marion Sims	Doctor	25-Jan-1813	13-Nov-1883	Father of gynecology
John W. Summers	Politician	29-Apr-1870	25-Sep-1937	US Congressman from Washington, 1919-33
John M. Templeton, Jr.	Relative	19-Feb-1940	16-May-2015	Conservative philanthropist
George Tiller	Doctor	8-Aug-1941	31-May-2009	Late-term abortionist
William E. Timmons, Sr.	Government	27-Dec-1930		Washington lobbyist
Helene von Damm	Government	4-May-1938		Reagan's personal secretary
William H. Welch	Scientist	8-Apr-1850	30-Apr-1934	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Ray Lyman Wilbur	Educator	13-Apr-1875	26-Jun-1949	President of Stanford University, 1916-43
John F. Williams, Jr.	Business	c. 1948		VP Health Affairs, George Washington University
Michael B. Wood	Doctor	c. 1944		CEO of the Mayo Foundation, 1999-2003
Hubert Work	Government	3-Jul-1860	14-Dec-1942	US Interior Secretary, 1923-28

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