In fact, the Geneva Conference on Person-centered Medicine took place on May 29 and 30, 2008 under the auspices and on the premises of the University Hospitals of Geneva, organized by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Institutional Program on Psychiatry for the Person (IPPP), in collaboration with the World Medical Association (WMA), the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca), the W...

I am proud to be invited to write an essay for the special issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine honoring Dean Vernon Lippard. The Association of American Medical Colleges first brought us together in 1946 and during the years that have followed his counsel and friendship have steadily added to my store of significant memory. The subject for this essay has always been one of our mut...

On 21 October 2016 Ketan Desai began his one year tenure as president of the World Medical Association. The WMA is formed and funded by 111 national medical associations and describes itself as “an organization promoting the highest possible standards of medical ethics.” The incumbent president, however, is a controversial figure who has been charged with corruption in a Delhi court. Desai has ...

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