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Richard E. Corlin, MD – RCSM Speaker : June 21, 2002 President Elect. – American Medical Association
Richard E. Corlin, MD, a gastroenterologist in private practice in Santa Monica, California, was elected President‑Elect of the American Medical Association (AMA) in June 2000. Prior to becoming President‑Elect, Dr. Corlin served as Speaker of the AMA's House of Delegates for five years. He has been active in the affairs of the AMA for the past twenty years, having served for nine years as a member and then Chair of the AMA Council on Long-Range Planning and Development. He was also asked to Chair the AMA Commission on Services to Young Physicians, which ultimately led to the creation of the Young Physicians Section in the House of Delegates. He served as Chair of the AMA Study Committee on Hospital Medical Staff, and has been a member and chair of AMA reference committees. He was a member of the AD Hoc Committee on Physician Manpower from 1987 to 1988, and as a spokesperson for AMA, won the AMA Speakers Bureau Award in both 1980 and 1981, the last two years the award was given. In 1992, Dr. Corlin was invited by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis Sullivan, to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institute of Health. A Past President of the California Medical Association (CMA), Dr. Corlin served as its President from 1992 to 1993, was Vice Speaker and Speaker of the CMA House of Delegates for nine years, and a member of its Board of Trustees for twelve years. Long active as a leader of medicine in California, Dr. Corlin chaired numerous committees of the CMA including the Finance Committee, the Liaison Committee to State Hospital Medical Staffs, and was an active member of the CMA Speakers Bureau on Tort Reform. He was President of the Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) in 1978‑79. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Dr. Corlin is a graduate of Rutgers University, and received his MD degree from Hahnemann Medical College. Following residency training at Hahnemann, Dr. Corlin served as a Lt. Commander in the USPHS, Heart Disease and Stroke Control Program from 1968 to 1970, and then took a gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, is a member of both the American Gastroenterology Association and the American Society of Internal Medicine, and is a Past President of the Southern California Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He is also the Chairman of the Audio Digest Foundation, and is an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. Dr. Corlin, his wife Catherine, and their sons reside in Santa Monica. |
