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Dateline: Above the clouds enroute home after a speech in Arizona
DJP 2-25-2005 AMA Update - AMA National House Call in Oregon; Lagniappe Will get home tonight and depart Sunday for Oregon.
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ITEM ONE: AMA National House Call goes to Oregon Excerpt from Federation Newsletter:
AMA National House Call turns spotlight on
Oregon
AMA Immediate Past President Donald J. Palmisano,
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ITEM TWO: LAGNIAPPE My continuous thanks to all of you for giving me the opportunity to represent the physicians of America as president-elect, president, and now immediate past-president. For doing what you elected me to do, I not only meet courageous physicians and patients, but I get the unexpected and greatly appreciated lagniappe such as noted below in the Loyola University New Orleans President's Medal. That tribute belongs to all in the House of Delegates, past and present, who sacrified, debated, and formulated our AMA policy that I am proud to advocate. In June, my tour of duty on the AMA Board of Trustees ends, but you always will be remembered by Robin and me. Stay well. DJP Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD AMA Immediate Past-President
For Immediate Release: Contact: Angela R. Anthony February 24, 2005 Kristine Lelong 504-861-5888 publaff@loyno.edu
Loyola University New Orleans President, the Rev. Kevin Wm.Wildes, S.J., presents President’s Medal to Dr. Donald J. Palmisano, past president of AMA
(New Orleans)--Loyola University New Orleans President, the Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., presented the President’s Medal to Donald J. Palmisano, M.D., J.D., a general and vascular surgeon and a 1982 graduate of the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, in a ceremony in Wildes’ dining room on February 22. Palmisano is the immediate past president of the American Medical Association (AMA).
The President’s Medal is presented to an individual who has exhibited extraordinary leadership. Wildes awarded it to Palmisano based on his service to the national medical community and leadership as president of the AMA. The AMA has made medical liability reform its top priority, and Palmisano has been an authoritative voice for the need to enact such reform. He has represented the voice of America’s physicians before Congress and the national media. In August 2001, Palmisano was featured on the cover of New Orleans Magazine after being selected as one of the “Top Doctors” in New Orleans by an editorial board of physicians. In 2000, the Department of Defense chose him as one of 60 American “opinion leaders” to participate in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference during which he participated in maneuvers with the U.S. armed forces. A recipient of multiple membership recruitment awards, Palmisano is an acknowledged proponent of organized medicine. He served as president of the Louisiana State Medical Society from 1984 to 1985, and was elected to the society’s Hall of Fame in 2000. He played a key role in the passage of the landmark Louisiana Medical Malpractice Act of 1975, helping to plan and implement reforms that capped medical liability damages. Palmisano received his medical degree in 1963 from Tulane University School of Medicine. After completing a surgical residency at Tulane and Charity Hospital in New Orleans, he entered the U.S. Air Force. While serving as chief of surgery for the 821st Medical Group, Palmisano was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal for his efforts following the crash of a B-52 strategic bomber. Driven by his interest in medical liability reform, he obtained a juris doctor from Loyola School of Law in New Orleans. Palmisano is board certified in surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is also an honorary fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
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