James L. Madara, MD, serves as the CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association and adjunct professor of pathology at Northwestern University.
Dr. Madara has helped sculpt the organization’s long-term strategic plan. He also serves as chairman of Health2047 Inc., the wholly-owned innovation subsidiary of the AMA, created to overcome systemic dysfunction in U.S. health care.
Prior to the AMA, Dr. Madara spent the first 22 years of his career at Harvard Medical School, receiving both clinical and research training, serving as a tenured professor, and as director of the NIH-sponsored Harvard Digestive Diseases Center. Following five years as chair of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University, Dr. Madara served as dean of both biology and medicine, and then as CEO of the University of Chicago Medical Center, unifying the university’s biomedical research, teaching and clinical activities.
Dr. Madara then served as senior advisor with Leavitt Partners, a health care consulting and private-equity firm founded by former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt.
Throughout his career, he has published over 200 original papers and chapters and has served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Pathology and as president of the American Board of Pathology.
Dr. Madara is consistently named one of the nation’s 50 most influential physician executives and on the nation’s 100 most influential people in health care. Some of his notable awards include the MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health, the Davenport Award for lifetime achievement in gastrointestinal disease from the American Physiological Society, and the Mentoring Award for lifetime achievement from the American Gastroenterological Society.
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