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08/10/2020
Ohio State Professor Takes Helm At National Medical Association
Dr. Leon McDougle is the newest president of the National Medical Association
An Ohio State University professor is now leading the nation’s oldest association of Black doctors.
Dr. Leon McDougle, a professor of family medicine at Ohio State and the chief diversity officer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Wexner Medical Center, is the newest president of the National Medical Association (NMA). McDougle is the 121st president of the association, which was founded in 1895 and works to shrink health disparities and improve access to quality health care for African Americans.
The population has been disproportionately affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. McDougle says one of the best ways to address that is for President Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to produce more testing supplies and personal protective equipment.
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