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The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. This medical association was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. [4] [5] Membership was 271,660 in 2022. [6]
Alpha Omega Alpha is an honor society in the field of medicine. [1] It was established in 1902 at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and expanded to include chapters across the United States and in Canada and Lebanon.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) [2] [3] is a health care industry trade group. It includes nearly 5,000 hospitals and health care providers. The organization, which was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1898, with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C. [4] [5] is currently headquartered in Chicago. [1]
The society was founded in 1850 and is one of the oldest medical societies in the United States. The first president was Levi Boone who also served as the mayor of Chicago. It began to publish the Chicago Medical Recorder in 1891, its papers having previously been published in the journals of other medical societies.
[12] [13] In 1921, the Illinois Masonic Hospital Association purchased Chicago Union Hospital [9] for $100,000. [10] By the end of the 1930s, the hospital had more than 150 beds. [11] In November 2000, Illinois Masonic Medical Center became a hospital member of Advocate Health Care.
The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), formerly known as the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, is a professional association based in Chicago, Illinois, encompassing 130,000 pathologists and laboratory professionals.