The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced the appointment of Dr. James L. Madara as its new Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Madara will assume leadership on July 1.
Dr. Madara is an accomplished academic medical center physician, medical scientist and administrator who served as Timmie Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine before assuming the Thompson Distinguished Service Professorship and deanship at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Subsequently, he added the responsibility of CEO of the University of Chicago Medical Center, bringing together the university's biomedical research, teaching and clinical activities.
As CEO, he engineered significant new affiliations with community hospitals, teaching hospital systems, community Federally Qualified Health Centers on Chicago's South Side, as well as with national research organizations including the Janelia Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Bethesda and the Ludwig Foundation of New York.
Dr. Madara is a noted academic pathologist and an authority on epithelial cell biology and on gastrointestinal disease. He has published more than 200 original papers and chapters, making important contributions to understanding the biology of the cells that line the digestive tract. His work has garnered both national and international awards.
Most recently, Dr. Madara served as senior advisor with Leavitt Partners, a highly innovative healthcare consulting firm started by former Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt.
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