AMA President Shows Off APA Medal

AMA President Donald Palmisano, M.D., proudly wears the APA Honorary Fellowship Medal (medal on right) that was presented to him at the Convocation of Fellows at APA’s 2003 annual meeting in May. Palmisano was among those in attendance at the inauguration of the Louisiana State Medical Society’s (LSMS) new president, William T. Hall, M.D., in Baton Rouge in October. Palmisano also is wearing the LSMS presidential medal (the largest medal) and the AMA presidential medal.

This photo was sent to Psychiatric News by Dudley M. Stewart Jr., M.D., the vice chair and Area 5 representative to the Committee on Government Relations and the Louisiana Psychiatric Medical Association’s deputy representative to the APA Assembly. He is also a former president of the LSMS.