Patrice A. Harris Biography

Patrice A. Harris MD MA was elected to be president of the American Medical Association in June 2018. A psychiatrist from Atlanta Dr. Harris has diverse experience as a private practicing physician public health administrator patient advocate and medical society lobbyist. Active in organized medicine her entire career Dr. Harris has served on the board of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and was an APA delegate to the AMA. She has also been a member of the governing council of the AMA Women Physicians Congress testified before and served on AMA reference committees and has served on AMA work groups on health information technology SGR and private contracting. The AMA Board of Trustees (BOT) appointed her to the AMA Council on Legislation in 2003 and she was elected by the council in 2010 to serve as its chair. She was first elected to the AMA-BOT in June 2011. Dr. Harris has held many leadership positions at the state level as well including serving on the board and as president of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association and on the Medical Association of Georgias Council on Legislation its Committee on Constitution and Bylaws and its Membership Task Force. She was also the founding president of the Georgia Psychiatry Political Action Committee.

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