AMA Moving Medicine Magazine

AMA Moving Medicine celebrates the important work of the AMA and its diverse membership to highlight how your peers are committing to identity, technology and the truth of science to provide better care for patients everywhere. Discover how members are moving medicine as students, physicians, researchers, advocates and leaders.

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Winter 2020 - Volume 4: Women in medicine

Ending the obesity shame game

Campaigning to change the way obesity is viewed by patients, the health system and a culture where too often body appearance comes first, and people come last.

Featuring Fatima Cody Stanford, MD

Dr Fatima Cody Stanford stands in the Ether Dome, holding a green apple.

Training to capture the big picture

Two national efforts are redesigning the culture and curriculum of medical education for students and residents. Together, they’re about improving patient care.

Featuring Susan E. Skochelak, MD

Teaching culturally humble primary care

A medical school aims to help aspiring doctors remain connected to their communities, tailoring what they learn to the patients they serve.

Featuring Tonya Fancher, MD

She’s a private practice advocate, a mentor—and a heroine

This young family physician has co-founded a flourishing private practice and believes that training has enabled her to manage whatever challenge is thrown in her path.

Featuring Carolynn Francavilla Brown, MD

Fall 2019 - Volume 3: Health care advocacy in action

Restoring trust in vaccines

For a physician scientist and father of an adult daughter with autism, there is no backing down when he sets his sights on putting vaccine misinformation in the past.

Featuring Peter Hotez, MD

Knocking down barriers to health equity

American medicine is beset by wide disparities. Operationalizing health equity is the task embraced by the leader of the AMA’s new Center for Health Equity.

Featuring Aletha Maybank, MD

New frontier for pioneers of zero suicide

After reducing suicide among patients with depression, Henry Ford Medical Group is targeting the stalemate that stifles evidence-based action on gun violence.

Featuring Cathrine Frank, MD, and William A. Conway, MD

Righting human wrongs

One doctor, fueled by data and determination, is providing the know-how that doctors and medical students need to help victims of sex trafficking.

Featuring Catherine Coughlin, MD

The speaker steps up

Once an awestruck medical student observer, the new speaker of the AMA House of Delegates has worked tirelessly for patients and physicians for more than three decades.

Featuring Bruce A. Scott, MD

Summer 2019 - Volume 2: Changing the culture of physician burnout

Looking upstream for answers to burnout

Ochsner Health System’s first chief wellness officer is focusing the organization’s efforts on minimizing the source of stressors and giving time back to physicians.

Featuring Nigel Girgrah, MD

The power of the kitchen table consult

Their path toward moving medicine converged more than a decade ago in the AMA House of Delegates. Now their shared purpose starts closer to home.

Featuring Kavita Arora, MD, and Hans Arora, MD

A quest to never waste a step

The AMA’s powerful work to transform contemporary medical practice and prevent physician burnout will not stop until health care’s dysfunction is defunct.

Featuring Christine Sinsky, MD

Elevate the well-being conversation

At the University of Nebraska Medical Center, students learn the importance of recognizing one’s limits, but more importantly, not to fear talking about it.

Featuring Jeffrey P. Gold, MD and Steven P. Wengel, MD

Revealing the ripples of burnout

After years of leading efforts to understand the magnitude of the burnout epidemic, two researchers look to the next challenge: quantifying the impact of solutions.

Featuring Lotte N. Dyrbye, MD, and Colin P. West, MD

Spring 2019 - Volume 1: What it means to be a physician

Recognizing the patterns of truth

You may have seen the movie about the discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Learn more about the physician behind the discovery and letting science lead the way.

Featuring Bennet I. Omalu, MD

Making house calls to the homeless

The medical and psychosocial needs of patients experiencing homelessness are often dire. How one medical student has led the charge to meet those needs in Buffalo, New York.

Featuring Moudi Hubeishy

Inside a thriving telehealth community

Serving more than a million rural Wisconsin residents, Marshfield Clinic Health System has seamlessly expanded the boundaries of telemedicine for more than twenty years.

Featuring Narayana Murali, MD and Kori Krueger, MD

Gaining trust through shared identity

Three healers are changing not just how medicine treats patients in their minoritized communities, but also how it treats their peers.

Featuring Siobhan Wescott, MD, Carl G. Streed, Jr., MD, and Deena Kishawi

The journey of physician mothers

Two physician moms share their experiences with balancing motherhood and a thriving medical career, while joining forces with other women for support.

Featuring Tiffani Bell, MD, and Sumi Makkar Sexton, MD

Digital designs for the age of evidence

The JAMA Network team has worked relentlessly to devise ways for the AMA’s crown jewel of high-quality research to be available to physicians on command.

Featuring Howard Bauchner, MD

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Winter 2020 - Volume 4 Spring 2019 - Volume 1

Fall 2019 - Volume 3

Summer 2019 - Volume 2