Family physician Edward Langston, M.D., has a vision for shaping the nature of patient care for years to come -- a vision that the AMA House of Delegates signaled its approval of June 26, when it re-elected him to a second four-year term on the AMA Board of Trustees.
AMA House Re-Elects AAFP's Langston to Board
FPs Land Seats on AMA Council
By Cindy Borgmeyer
• Chicago
7/6/2007
"The next four years will define the very nature of patient care for an entire generation," FP and AMA Board Trustee Edward Langston, M.D., tells delegates at the annual meeting of the AMA House of Delegates. Langston was re-elected to serve another four-year term on the AMA board.
Langston, of Lafayette, Ind., was named the board's chair-elect following the 2006 annual meeting and began his service as chair of the AMA board after this year's annual meeting June 23-27 in Chicago.
"The next four years will define the very nature of patient care for an entire generation," Langston told delegates and others in a June 24 campaign speech before the AMA house. He said he saw opportunities for AMA leadership in three key areas:
- access -- securing portable health care coverage for all Americans, young and old, regardless of their socioeconomic status;
- advocacy -- creating a practice environment where physicians can deliver the type of care their patients need and deserve ; and
- activism -- pursuing changes to anti-trust statutes that restrict patient choice and physician decision-making.
"I am humbled by your confidence and invigorated by the challenge," Langston told the delegates June 26 after the election results were announced.
Two other AAFP members were named to leadership positions at the annual AMA meeting. David Barbe, M.D., of Mountain Grove, Mo., was re-elected to the AMA Council on Medical Service. Gerald Harmon, M.D., of Georgetown, S.C., also was elected to the Council on Medical Service.
Two other AAFP members were named to leadership positions at the annual AMA meeting. David Barbe, M.D., of Mountain Grove, Mo., was re-elected to the AMA Council on Medical Service. Gerald Harmon, M.D., of Georgetown, S.C., also was elected to the Council on Medical Service.
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