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+++++++++++++++++++ + + +++++++++++++++++++ LOCAL NEWS  +++ +++ AMA NAMES NEW EVP/CEO The American Medical Association (AMA) has named James L. Madara, M.D., as its new Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Madara will assume leadership of the nation’s oldest and larg- est physician group on July 1. Dr. Madara, 60, is an accomplished aca- demic medical center physician, medical scientist and administrator who served as Timmie Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Emory Uni- versity School of Medicine before assuming the Thompson Distinguished Service Pro- fessorship and deanship at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, where he was the longest-serving Pritzker dean in the last 35 years. Subsequently, he took on the responsibilities of CEO of the University of Chicago Medical Center, bringing together the university’s biomedi- cal research, teaching and clinical activi- ties. As CEO, he engineered significant new affiliations with community hospitals, teaching hospital systems and community federally qualified health centers on Chi- cago’s South Side, as well as with national research organizations, including the Jane- lia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Bethesda and the Ludwig Foundation of New York. “The AMA is a venerable institution, and I am honored to lead it during the challenging and exciting time,” Dr. Madara says. “The AMA has been at the forefront, working to improve public health, physician practice, patient care and our American health care system for the past 164 years. Today, more than ever, America’s patients and physicians need a strong and vibrant AMA to tackle the many challenges facing them.” While at the University of Chicago from 2002 to 2009, Dr. Madara oversaw a signif- icant renewal of the institution’s biomedi- cal campus, including the Comer Children’s Hospital, the Gordon Center for Integrative Science, a new adult hospital pavilion, and the Knapp Center for Biomedical Dis- covery. His deanship also extended to the university’s renowned Biological Sciences Division. Dr. Madara is a noted academic pa- thologist and an authority on epithelial cell biology and gastrointestinal disease. He has served as president of the American Board of Pathology, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Pathology, received a prestigious MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health, been elected to mem- bership in the Association of American Physicians and recently received the Dav- enport Award for lifetime achievement in gastrointestinal disease from the American Physiological Society. CROUSE HOSPITAL RECEIVES CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DESIGNATION The Breast Health Center at Crouse Hospi- tal has been named a Breast Imaging Cen- ter of Excellence by the American College 20 | Central New York MD NEWS  MDNEWS.COM

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