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High energy executive recognized for creativity, innovation and excellence through combined expertise in the scientific publishing, physician database and information technology fields. Have worked in a number of different fields including marketing, scientific publishing, information technology and business development. Specific areas of interest include:• New Product Development & Launch• Strategic Planning & Leadership Technology Innovation & Optimization• Sales, Marketing & New Business Development• Quality, Efficiency & Productivity Improvement• Joint Ventures & Alliances • Customer Relationship ManagementProven success in driving electronic publishing, product innovation, e-commerce, profit & market share growth for mature and expense reduction . A pioneer in the development of profitable online and app products and multimedia technologies. Successful in creating strategic plans, building operating infrastructures and managing profitable new business ventures. Keen presentation, negotiation and problem solving skills. Expert in team building and leadership.Executive Titles include: SVP of Membership and Marketing, Chief Information Officer, SVP of Business Products and Services, Senior Publisher for JAMA, Archives Journals and AMNews and Chief Development Officer. Goals are to shape and implement AMA's envisioned future by providing solutions to physicians that assist them in managing their practice and day to day lives.Specialties: Scientific Publishing, identity and reputation management, business development and innovation.

James L. Madara, MD, serves as the CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physician organization. He holds the academic title of adjunct professor of pathology at Northwestern University. Since taking the reins of the AMA in 2011, Dr. Madara has helped sculpt the organization’s visionary long-term strategic plan. As an extension of this vision, he now also serves as chairman of Health2047 Inc., an independent, design-driven innovation firm based in San Francisco whose mission is to help advance the AMA’s goal of improving the health of the nation. Prior to arriving at 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 5 years as chair of pathology at Emory, Dr. Madara served as dean of the medical school and CEO of the hospitals at the University of Chicago, bringing together the university’s biomedical research, teaching and clinical activities. While there, he oversaw the renewal of the institution’s biomedical campus and engineered significant new affiliations with community hospitals, teaching hospital systems, community clinics and national research organizations. Dr. Madara also served as senior advisor with Leavitt Partners, an innovative health care consulting and private-equity firm founded by former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt. Having published more than 200 original papers and chapters, Dr. Madara has received both national and international awards, and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Pathology and as president of the American Board of Pathology. In addition to Modern Healthcare consistently naming him as one of the nation’s 50 most influential physician executives, as well as one of the nation’s 100 most influential people in health care, he is a past recipient of a prestigious MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health. He received the 2011 Davenport Award for lifetime achievement in gastrointestinal disease from the American Physiological Society and the 2011 Mentoring Award for lifetime achievement from the American Gastroenterological Society. Dr. Madara is an elected member of both the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He also co-chairs the Value Incentives and Systems Innovation Collaborative of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and is a member of NAM’s Leadership Consortium for Value & Science-Driven Health Care. Dr. Madara and his wife Vicki have 2 children, Max and Alexis.

Paul Abramowitz is a Chief Executive Officer at American Society for Health-System Pharmacists.