INSTALLATION OF PRESIDENT & OFFICERS
LACMA Welcomes 150th President
Jeffery Lee, MD
In July, The Los Angeles County Medical Association welcomed Dr. Jeffery Lee, MD, its 150th president. Forgoing the traditional in-person celebration due to COVID, outgoing president Dr. Diana Shiba passed the torch virtually, and preparations are underway for a grand online event to take place in the coming weeks. With the commemoration of LACMA’s historic 150th year in mind, Dr. Lee hit the ground running with a focus on physician well-being, and innovative new programs already taking shape. “As we look at LACMA’s 150-year history, we’ve been through the Spanish Flu pandemic and now the COVID-19 pandemic, 2 World Wars, and the Cold War, the Great Depression, the Great Recession, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, and the George Floyd demonstrations,” Dr. Lee said. “In our 150 years, Louis Pasteur
”Even though times have changed, LACMA has always been dedicated to support the physicians of Los Angeles in their noble effort to care for the people of LA.” established the germ theory of disease and we’ve witnessed vaccine development for cholera, anthrax, rabies, tetanus, diphtheria, typhoid fever, Bubonic plague, whooping cough, typhus, influenza, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, pneumonia, meningitis, hepatitis B, hepatitis A, human papillomavirus, shingles, and now the surprisingly controversial SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. “But as much history LACMA has been through, we have always been the recognized voice of LA’s doctors,” Dr. Lee continued. Even though times have changed, LACMA has always been dedicated to supporting the physicians of Los Angeles in their noble effort to care for the people of LA. (continued on page 8) 6 LOS A N G EL ES M ED I CI N E | Q UA RT ER 3 2021
