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John O. Brown, M.D.
President-Elect

N.M.A. finds strength in women

The National Medical Association has found a great deal of strength in its women. 

Besides its new president, Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the NMA has a large number of women officers.

Dr. Vivian W. Pinn-Wiggins is vice speaker of the house of delegates; Dr. Alma R. George is treasurer, and Dr. Cheryl L. Birchette-Pierce is secretary. Three women sit on the board of trustees. Two more are regional chairpersons.

A luncheon/symposium Tuesday on women in medicine, hosted by the Council on Concerns of Women Physicians, will be a highlight of the 90th annual convention and scientific assembly of NMA. 

A panel comprised of four persons representing the public sector and the medical school administration will discuss "Personal Insights into Health Care Administration."

A new women's chapter of NMA, the Susan Smith McKinney Stewart Medical Society, has been founded. The first all-women's chapter was founded by Dr. Muriel Peptoni and named after the first black women physician in New York state and the third black woman physician in the U.S. Chapter membership consists of 150 women physicians from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

While women have grown stronger with the NMA, the auxiliary's role has been changing. 

In existence for 49 years, the auxiliary, now chaired by Ann Smith-e-Incas with Mildred Lord the president, has taken the theme "Building Bridges: Back to Basics Through Nutrition and Parenting" for this convention. 

The auxiliary remains a vital part of the association. This can be seen through its efforts in human relations, legislation and meeting community needs. The auxiliary helped make the NMA's national immunization program a major preventative health success. It gives scholarships to Meharry, Howard, Morehouse and the Charles Drew medical schools, the nation's four black medical schools. 

The auxiliary also has played a major role in supporting an active NMA children's program. 

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John E. Joyner, M.D.
Chairman, Board of Trustees

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Eugene McCabe
President of North General Hosipital

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North General Hospitals' Reception at Schomburg Center
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Dr. Edith Irby Jones, Pres.
Dr. John Joyner, Chairman
Jennie Davidson
Auxiliary NMA Pres.

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Second Lecture In The W. Montague Cobb Lecture Series given by Dr. Charles H. Epps, Jr. and Dr. Roslyn Payne Epps flanking Dr. Montague (seated)
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Medical Director of Ciba-Geigy, Phila.Louis Sullivan, President and Dean, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia and Russell Miller, M.D., Dean, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

CENTENNIAL IN 1995: ATLANTA, GEORGIA

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