Two third-year medical students from the School of Medicine at UMass Medical School have been elected to student leadership positions in the American Medical Association. Christopher Libby has been elected chair of the governing council of the AMA Medical Student Section and Caroline Yang has been elected a region delegate. The elections took place at the interim meeting in November.
Libby, who will serve as chair-elect for the next six months until his one-year term as chair begins in June, will be responsible for presiding over the governing council, which directs the programs and activities of the Medical Student Section. Libby will provide direction for initiatives of the governing council, serve as a liaison between the governing council and AMA staff and represent the AMA-MSS.
Yang, who has served as a student delegate from UMMS and as vice chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society MSS, has been elected to serve as the region delegate to the physician section of the AMA House of Delegates for one year beginning in June. The House of Delegates discusses its own set of resolutions at each meeting; region delegates represent the interests of medical students and ensure that their student voice is being heard.
“For many years now, our UMMS students have excelled in their engagement and their leadership in organized medicine, both locally at the Mass Medical Society and nationally at the AMA,” said Michele Pugnaire, MD, senior associate dean for educational affairs and professor of family medicine & community health. “With the most recent AMA student electi
