American Medical AssociationIn 1847, delegates to a national medical convention in Philadelphia, Pennylvania, approved a resolution to establish the American Medical Association. Dr. Nathaniel Chapman was elected as its first president. The goals of the association were scientific advancement, standards for medical education, launching a program of medical ethics and improved public health. From 28 states, 250 delegates attended this founding meeting, seated among exhibit cases in the hall of The Academy of Natural Sciences. Dr. Nathan S. Davis is known as the founder of the AMA because of his 1845 resolution to the New York Medical Association that called for the national medical convention that led to the forming of the AMA. At its founding, he was just 30 years old. |
