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CMA Request for Annual Applications and Nominations for Councils and Committees

The California Medical Association (CMA) Board of Trustees, via its Committee on Nominations, is seeking recommendations for member physicians who are interested in and willing to serve on its standing Councils and Subcommittees for 2023-2024. The deadline for submission is 11:59 p.m. on Monday, June 5, 2023. All current appointments expire at the conclusion of the CMA House of Delegates in October 2023. New appointments will begin their terms at that time, with the new terms expiring at the conclusion of the 2024 House of Delegates. Councils and committees meet as needed, ...

Highlights from CMA Legislative Advocacy Day

On April 19th, 2023 the Santa Clara County Medical Association participated in the CMA’s 49th Legislative Advocacy Day. It was a huge success! Our SCCMA team sent 22 physicians to Sacramento to meet with our legislative offices. We had nine legislative meetings in one day. We met with the offices for Assemblymember Low, Assemblymember Lee, Assemblymember Pellerin, Senator Becker, Senator Wahab, Assemblymember Rivas, Assemblymember Kalra, Assemblymember Berman and Senator Cortese.  Our group convened at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center with Hundreds of other physicians, residents and medicals students from ...

Honoring SCCMA Past President, Howard Sutkin, MD

To Members of the Santa Clara County Medical Association, With great regret, I inform you of the death of Howard Sutkin, MD Santa Clara County Medical Association President 2009 which occurred on January 27, 2023, in the fifty-eighth year of his life Sincerely, Anlin Xu, MD President Dr. Sutkin grew up on Long Island, New York. He attended the State University of New York at Binghamton, class of 1985 and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, class of 1989. He subsequently completed his plastic surgery residency at Stanford University in 1995 which included a clinical fellowship at the Buncke Clinic in San ...

Save the Date for CMA’s Legislative Advocacy Day, April 19 in Sacramento

Event: CMA Legislative Advocacy Day  Date: April 19  Registration: Free The California Medical Association (CMA) will host its 49th annual Legislative Advocacy Day in Sacramento on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with legislators on priority healthcare issues. The meetings will be scheduled and coordinated by local county medical societies. Santa Clara County Medical Association (SCCMA) members can contact Emily at emily@sccma.org or (408) 998 - 8850 x3011 for inquiries.  This unique event is free of charge to all CMA physician members, residents and medical students. Plan to join your colleagues as they prepare ...

Physicians CMA President Elect Climate Change Forum

We see this as THE most important thing you can do to show your support for CMA making climate an organizational priority THIS YEAR. Please join us and invite your CMA friends and colleagues. About this event Climate change is a health emergency, but what is our professional duty as physicians? Join other California Medical Association physicians to discuss CMA's opportunity to lead.  Date: Friday, Sept 17, 2021 Time : 12:30-1:30 PDT Our climate is changing. Across California climate change is multiplying health risks: more frequent and severe heat waves, worsening droughts and megafires in ...