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California Medical Association (CMA)

California Medical Association (CMA)

Sacramento, California, United States of America

About:
CMA is a professional organization representing the physicians of the state of California.

The purposes of this Association are to promote the science and art of medicine, the care and well-being of patients, the protection of the public health, and the betterment of the medical profession; to promote and support similar interests in its component societies; and to unite with similar organizations in other states and territories of the United States to form the American Medical Association.

History:
On March 12, 1856, the Medical Society of the State of California held its first meeting at Pioneer Hall on “J” Street in what is now Old Town Sacramento. The society’s first president, Benjamin Franklin Keene, M.D.,—also a state senator representing El Dorado County—led the meeting of 75. The dynamic physicians who founded the Medical Society of the State of California were veterans in the fight against cholera, encephalitis, typhoid and smallpox – diseases that became prevalent in the newly minted lands of California after the Gold Rush of 1849. They dedicated their organization to “promote the science and art of medicine, protection of public health, and the betterment of the medical profession.”
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