July 18, 2024
MMA members are encouraged to vote for incoming MMA leadership during the month of August. Members will receive a ballot via email on August 1 to vote on the slate of leadership candidates. The ballot will include background information on each of the candidates.
President-elect and Board of Trustee members will take office October 1. AMA delegates and alternate delegates take office beginning January 1, 2025.
This year’s slate is as follows:
President-elect (members will elect one)
Lisa Mattson, MD, FACOG
Trustee (members will elect one)
Amrit Singh, MBBS (incumbent)
Medical Student Trustee (members will elect one)
Hunter Cantrell, BSc
Caleb Grenko, BS
AMA Delegate (members will elect one)
John Abenstein, MD, MSEE (incumbent)
AMA Alternate Delegate (members will elect one)
Laurel Ries, MD (incumbent)
This year’s ballot also includes a Board of Trustees-recommended change to MMA Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. The change would grant the MMA Board of Trustees the authority to amend bylaws with a majority vote, subject to an advance 30-day member notice and comment period. This change aligns with governance best practices that place authority for bylaws changes with organization fiduciaries, which in MMA’s case are the elected trustees and officers. The proposed bylaws change would preserve MMA’s history of transparency and member input via an advance 30-day member notice and comment period on any future bylaws changes.
The MMA has partnered with Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS) to administer the 2024 election. To assure your email ballot arrives safely in your inbox on August 1, 2024, simply add the following email address as an approved sender: noreply@directvote.net.
If you do not receive your email ballot link by August 2, please contact support@directvote.net.
May 29, 2025
As the Legislature works to complete its work on the state’s two-year budget, another deadline is looming. Legislators are required to pass a balanced budget before the end of the fiscal year—June 30, 2025. If they don’t meet that deadline, the state will begin a partial shutdown.
May 29, 2025
Registration has opened for the Empowering Physicians: A Night of Reflection and Engagement event, featuring best-selling author Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD.
May 29, 2025
The AMA is encouraging physicians to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to revise the reconciliation bill passed recently by the U.S. House of Representatives. While the bill includes language that would stabilize Medicare physician payments, it also threatens to cripple Medicaid and CHIP.