Colorado Medical Society (CMS)

Founded in 1871, the Colorado Medical Society (CMS) is the largest organization of physicians in Colorado, with over 7,500 members across all specialties and employment settings. Organized as a Colorado nonprofit 501(c)(6), corporation, CMS operates with 12 full-time staff with over 200 combined years of experience working for physicians in organized medicine.

Philanthropically, CMS created CMSF, a 501(c)(3) Foundation whose mission is to administer and financially manage programs that seek to improve access to health care and health services, with the potential to improve the health of Colorado. CMS also created the CMS Education Foundation whose mission is to support education by providing scholarships to worthy Colorado medical students.

The Colorado Medical Society (CMS) is an association of physicians that promotes the science and art of medicine, the betterment of public health, and the welfare of the medical profession and the patients it serves; and promotes the similar interests of its components and district medical societies.