CMA Convenes 150th Anniversary House of Delegates
[Posted 10/26/06]

The 2006 House of Delegates convenes this weekend, October 28-30, at the Sacramento Convention Center. Physicians from across the state will debate and set policy on important health care issues including universal health care, physician-assisted suicide, making California tobacco-free, and improving Medicare and workers’ compensation programs. Other resolutions will address limiting physician participation in torture, mandating HPV testing in middle school, and taxing soft drinks.

During the three-day meeting, about 1,000 physicians—including 499 delegates and nearly 300 alternate delegates representing their geographic communities, ethnicities, and specialties from throughout the state, as well as specialty association representatives, medical students, and others—will address 145 resolutions on key issues that affect the practice of medicine.

On Saturday afternoon, CMA will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding in 1856 in Sacramento with a multimedia presentation of CMA’s leadership role in 150 years of medical and health care advances. There will also be a historic display in the meeting hall, and a reception for VIPs from around the country.

Anmol Singh Mahal, M.D., will be inaugurated as CMA’s 139th president. Dr. Mahal, a gastroenterologist from Fremont, is the first CMA president of Sikh origin.

Click here to preview this year’s reports and resolutions.