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[[image - NMA logo]] National Medical Association 1981 MEETING OF National Medical Association 86th ANNUAL CONVENTION AND SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY HILTON HOTEL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA JULY 10-23. 1981 1982 NMA MEETING: San Francisco - August 1-6, 1981 [[image]] [[caption]] VERTIS R. THOMPSON, M.D. President-Elect of N.M.A. [[/caption]] 1980-1981 OFFICERS GENERAL President, Vertis R. Thompson, Oakland, CA President-Elect, Frank S. Royal, MD, Richmond, VA First Vice-President, John O. Brown, MD, Miami, FL Second Vice-President, Edith C. Reid, MD, St. Albans, NY Third Vice-President, Vivian Pinn, MD, Boston, MA Executive Vice-President for Administrative Affairs, Alfred F. Fisher, Washington, D.C. Editor of the Journal, Calvin C. Sampson, MD, Washington D.C. Assistant Editors, Leslie L. Alexander, MD, Brooklyn, NY. Alyce C. Gullattee, MD, Washington, DC, Axel C. Hansen, MD, Nashville, TN HOUSE OF DELEGATES Speaker Charles Johnson, Jr. MD Durham, NC Vice-Speaker Henry Wiggins, MD Chicago, IL Secretary Tracy M. Walton, Jr, MD Washington, DC BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman Phillip M. Smith, MD, Inglewood, C Secretary Nelson McGhee, Jr. MD, Atlanta, GA Barrington B. Barnes, MD, Washington D.C. Canute C. Bernard, MD, Jamaica, NY William M. Chase, MD, East Orange, NJ William J. Coffey, MD, Los Angeles, Ca. Robert E. Dawson, MD, Durham, NC Lucius C. Earles, III, MD, Durham, NC. Norma J. Goodwin, MD, Brooklyn, NY Alyce C. Gullattee, MD, Washington, D.C. Robert L.M. Hilliard, MD, San Antonio, TX John E. Joyner, MD, Indianapolis, IN Edith Irby Jones, MD, Houston, TX Delutha H. King, MD, Atlanta, GA Edward A.R. Lord, MD, Houston TX Charles W. McGinnis, MD Nashville, TN Harold E. Ramsey, MD, Baltimore, MD John Rosemond, MD, Columbus OH Frank E. Staggers, MD, Oakland, CA NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Organized in Atlanta, Georgia in 1895 in the First Congressional Church during the Cotton States and International Exposition by Doctors Miles Vanderhurst Lynk of Memphis, Robert Fulton Boyd of Nashville, Tennessee, H.R. Butler of Atlanta, Tom Slater, I Garland Penn, and four others. Dr. R.F. Boyd was the first president and Dr. Lynk made the motion that named the group "The National Association of Colored Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists." Dr. Charles Victor Ro man expressed the credo of the National Medical Association in 1908 at the invitation of the Borough President of Manhattan during the New York City convention as follows: "Conceived in no spirit of racial exclusiveness, fostering no ethnic antagonism, but born of the exigencies of American environment, the National Medical Association has for its object the banding together for mutual cooperation and helpfulness the men and women of African descent who are legally and honorably engaged in the practice of the cognate professions of medicine, surgery, pharmacy and dentistry." Dr. C.V. Roman became the first editor in chief of the Journal of the National Medical Association in 1909 and served in this capacity until 1916. The Robert F. Boyd Medical Society of Nashville honors the first president. 149
