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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.

David Fisk joined the Charlotte Symphony as its new President & CEO in August 2020. For the previous eighteen years, he was Executive Director of the Richmond Symphony, Virginia. Prior to that, David served as Chief Executive of the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, the national symphony of Northern Ireland, and as General Manager of the Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square in London, one of the United Kingdom's principal chamber orchestras. He has also held the position of Development Director for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park - the UK's leading open-air art gallery complex - and was creator and Executive Director of the award-winning Manchester International Festival of Expressionism 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2001. Strong financial management and access to music for all were consistent theme of David's 18 years in Richmond. Under his leadership, the operating budget doubled; the Symphony's endowment grew from $8M to $18M; and a cash reserve was created. The Richmond Symphony expanded its youth orchestras program to five; created its annual 'Come & Play' event, that brings 700 community members together playing with the RSO musicians; launched its Lollipops family concerts, and Rush Hour at Hardywood Brewery concerts; and presented many popular new programs that have introduced tens of thousands of new audiences to the Symphony. David was the mastermind behind the Richmond Symphony's 'Big Tent', a $250,000 mobile stage that transformed the Symphony's relationship with the City of Richmond and the neighboring Counties. The Big Tent has become a cultural icon for the region, bringing families together for community festivals in public parks, including a record crowd of 22,000 for one 4th July celebration. Most noteworthy, though, has been the Big Tent's ability to generate proceeds from its events, of almost $500,000 to date, to buy musical instruments for all the City's elementary and middle schools, so that every public school student has access to learning an instrument. Born in Great Britain, David began his musical life aged 8 as a boy chorister for five years at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where he also studied piano, cello and organ. He continued those studies through high school, before pursuing a bachelor's degree in music from Manchester University, specializing in piano. He holds a postgraduate performer's diploma in piano accompaniment from the Royal Northern College of Music, where he also studied harpsichord, composition and conducting. David worked for a number of years as a freelance composer/arranger, conductor, opera coach, and orchestral keyboard-player, before moving into arts management. Throughout his career, David has continued to give public concerts frequently as an instrumental and vocal accompanist, and in recent years as a substitute church organist. David Fisk is married to the Irish soprano Anne O'Byrne, with a new home in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte. They have a daughter, Fionnuala or ''Finn'', (23), and son Oliver, (20). Other than music, David's hobbies include swimming, tennis and scuba diving - often off the coast of North Carolina - horse riding, and motorcycling. He is currently learning Spanish, slowly.

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