AMA’s CEO says group is focused on ‘three strategic arcs’

The AMA has been focused on three strategic areas — enhancing professional satisfaction and practice sustainability, developing the medical school of the future, and bettering health outcomes for patients with prediabetes and hypertension — according to the organization’s CEO, James L. Madara, MD. However, these three areas have expanded and are now interconnected, he said.“It’s now possible to capture and represent the totality of AMA’s work as three strategic arcs — each with one of the focus areas at its core,” Madara told delegates at the group’s annual meeting that is currently taking place in Chicago. “These three strategic arcs — producing critical tools and policies for the field, guiding professional development, and working to improve our nation’s health — these three build upon our original three focus areas, and tell a more complete story of the AMA.”