APA member Patrice Harris, M.D., takes office as president of the AMA

Patrice Harris, M.D., M.A. , a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), was sworn in June 11 as president of the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation's largest medical society, with roughly 250,000 members, the APA announced. Harris was elected president‐elect of the AMA in June 2018. She served on the AMA board of trustees beginning in 2011 and was secretary in 2014–15 and chair in 2016–17. She is currently chair of the AMA Opioid Task Force. As a practicing psychiatrist trained in child/adolescent and forensic psychiatry, she consults with both public and private organizations on health service delivery and is an adjunct assistant professor in the Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. “We are honored and delighted to have a psychiatrist and longtime APA member and leader leading the house of medicine as president of the AMA,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin, M.D., M.P.A. “Her work over the years at the APA and AMA will add value to her new role as the face of the AMA.”