New NMA president

Jet, August 18, 2008

New NMA President: Dr. Carolyn Barley Britton, the newly installed president of the National Medical Association (NMA), the country's premier organization of Black physicians, delivers her inaugural address during the group's convention in Atlanta, saying that she will focus on cancer and mental health disparities. "As we build on the outstanding work of our immediate past presidents in the areas of obesity, diabetes and HIV/AIDS, we will also bring disparities in cancer and mental health in the forefront of our agenda," she says. Britton, a recognized expert in neurovirology and infectious/inflammatory diseases of the nervous system, is associate professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and is a graduate of Oberlin College and New York University Medical School, where she earned her master's in microbiology (virology) and her M.D. More than 3,000 physicians representing 25 specialties attended the weeklong NMA convention.

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