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American physician For other people with the same name, see John Nelson (disambiguation).

John C. Nelson is a physician who served as president of the American Medical Association.

Tenure as president

While president of the American Medical Association in 2005, he was quoted supporting New York Medical College's decision to ban a gay student group. The college is affiliated with New York's Roman Catholic archdiocese. He later said his remarks were misrepresented. The AMA officially came out against the ban.

Following Nelson's comments, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association requested a meeting with the AMA leadership regarding his comments and the NYMC decision. According to the AMA, Nelson apologized for his comments and gave his support for addressing issues important to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) physicians. The AMA agreed to include LGBT health in its Commission to End Health Care Disparities, which had previously focused on race and ethnicity.

Nelson was succeeded as AMA president by Edward Hill.

In 2008, Nelson was appointed to the Whole Child Committee for the national children's charity Operation Kids.

References

Tanner, Lindsey. "AMA Feels Heat Over Leader's Anti-Gay Remarks." Associated Press. 18 February 2005. http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/02/021805AMA.htm Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
American Medical Association "Joint statement of the AMA and Gay and Lesbian Medical Association" 15 March 2005. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/14847.html

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1847–1875	Nathaniel Chapman (1847–1848) Alexander Hodgdon Stevens (1848–1849) John Collins Warren (1849–1850) Reuben D. Mussey (1850–1851) James Moultrie (1851–1852) Beverly R. Wellford (1852–1853) Jonathan Knight (1853–1854) Charles A. Pope (1854–1855) George Bacon Wood (1855–1856) Zina Pitcher (1856–1857) Paul F. Eve (1857–1858) Harvey Lindsly (1858–1859) Henry Miller (1859–1860) Eli Ives (1860–1861) Alden March (1863–1864) Nathan Smith Davis (1864–1866) David Humphreys Storer (1866–1867) Henry F. Askew (1867–1868) Samuel D. Gross (1868–1869) William O. Baldwin (1869–1870) George Mendenhall (1870–1871) Alfred Stillé (1871–1872) D. W. Yandell (1872–1873) Thomas M. Logan (1873–1874) Joseph M. Toner (1874–1875)
1875–1900	W. K. Bowling (1875–1876) J. Marion Sims (1876–1877) Henry I. Bowditch (1877–1878) T. G. Richardson (1878–1879) Theophilus Parvin (1879–1880) Lewis Sayre (1880–1881) John T. Hodgen (1881–1882) Joseph Janvier Woodward (1882–1883) John Light Atlee (1883–1884) Austin Flint I (1884–1885) H. F. Campbell (1885–1886) William Brodie (1886–1887) E. H. Gregory (1887–1888) A. Y. P. Garnett (1888–1889) W. W. Dawson (1889–1890) E. M. Moore (1890–1891) W. T. Briggs (1891–1892) H. O. Marcy (1892–1893) Hunter McGuire (1893–1894) James F. Hibberd (1894–1895) Donald MacLean, 1885–1896) R. Beverly Cole (1896–1897) Nicholas Senn (1897–1898) George Miller Sternberg (1898–1899) J. M. Mathews (1899–1900)
1900–1925	William Williams Keen (1900–1901) C. A. L. Reed (1901–1902) John Allan Wyeth (1902–1903) Frank Billings (1903–1904) John Herr Musser (1904–1905) L. S. McMurtry (1905–1906) William James Mayo (1906–1907) Joseph D. Bryant (1907–1908) H. L. Burrell (1908–1909) William C. Gorgas (1909–1910) William H. Welch (1910–1911) John Benjamin Murphy (1911–1912) Abraham Jacobi (1912–1913) John A. Witherspoon (1913–1914) Victor C. Vaughan (1914–1915) William L. Rodman (1915) Albert Vander Veer (vice president) (1915–1916) Rupert Blue (1916–1917) Charles Horace Mayo (1917–1918) Arthur D. Bevan (1918–1919) Alexander Lambert (1919–1920) William Clarence Braisted (1920–1921) Hubert Work (1921–1922) George de Schweinitz (1922–1923) Ray Lyman Wilbur (1923–1924) William Allen Pusey (1924–1925)
1925–1950	William D. Haggard (1925–1926) Wendell C. Phillips (1926–1927) Jabez N. Jackson (1927–1928) William W. Thayer (1928–1929) Malcolm L. Harris (1929–1930) William Gerry Morgan (1930–1931) E. Starr Judd (1931–1932) Edward H. Cary (1932–1933) Dean D. Lewis (1933–1934) Walter L. Bierring (1934–1935) James S. McLester (1935–1936) James Tate Mason (1936) Charles G. Heyd (1936–1937) J. H. J. Upham (1937–1938) Irvin Abell (1938–1939) Rock Sleyster (1939–1940) Nathan B. Van Etten (1940–1941) Frank Lahey (1941–1942) Fred W. Rankin (1942–1943) James E. Paullin (1943–1944) Herman L. Kretschmer (1944–1945) Roger I. Lee (1945–1946) H. H. Shoulders (1946–1947) Edward L. Bortz (1947–1948) Roscoe L. Sensenich (1948–1949) Ernest E. Irons (1949–1950)
1950–1975	Elmer L. Henderson (1950–1951) John W. Cline (1951–1952) Louis H. Bauer (1952–1953) Edward J. McCormick (1953–1954) Walter B. Martin (1954–1955) Elmer Hess (1955–1956) Dwight H. Murray (1956–1957) David B. Allman (1957–1958) Gunnar Gundersen (1958–1959) Louis M. Orr (1959–1960) E. Vincent Askey (1960–1961) Leonard W. Larson (1961–1962) George M. Fister (1962–1963) Edward R. Annis (1963–1964) Norman A. Welch (1964) Donovan F. Ward (vice president) (1964–1965) James Z. Appel (1965–1966) Charles L. Hudson (1966–1967) Milford O. Rouse (1967–1968) Dwight Locke Wilbur (1968–1969) Gerald D. Dorman (1969–1970) W. C. Bornemeier (1970–1971) Wesley W. Hall (1971–1972) C. A. Hoffman (1972–1972) Russell B. Roth (1973–1974) Malcolm C. Todd (1974–1975)
1975–2000	Max H. Parrott (1975–1976) Richard E. Palmer (1976–1977) John H. Budd (1977–1978) Thomas E. Nesbitt (1978–1979) Hoyt D. Gardner (1979–1980) Robert B. Hunter (1980–1981) Daniel T. Cloud, 1981–1982) William Y. Rial (1982–1983) Frank J. Jirka Jr. (1983–1984) Joseph F. Boyle (1984–1985) Harrison L. Rogers Jr. (1985–1986) John J. Coury Jr. (1986–1987) William S. Hotchkiss (1987–1988) James E. Davis (1988–1989) Alan R. Nelson (1989–1990) C. John Tupper (1990–1991) John J. Ring (1991–1992) John L. Clowe (1992–1993) Joseph T. Painter (1993–1994) Robert E. McAfee (1994–1995) Lonnie R. Bristow (1995–1996) Daniel H. Johnson Jr. (1996–1997) Percy Wootton (1997–1998) Nancy Dickey (1998–1999) Thomas Reardon (1999–2000)
2000–	Randolph D. Smoak Jr. (2000–2001) Richard F. Corlin (2001–2002) Yank D. Coble Jr. (2002–2003) Donald J. Palmisano (2003–2004) John C. Nelson (2004–2005) J. Edward Hill (2005–2006) William G. Plested III (2006–2007) Ronald M. Davis (2007–2008) Nancy H. Nielsen (2008–2009) J. James Rohack (2009–2010) Cecil B. Wilson (2010–2011) Peter W. Carmel (2011–2012) Jeremy A. Lazarus (2012–2013) Ardis Dee Hoven (2013–2014) Robert M. Wah (2014–2015) Steven J. Stack (2015–2016) Andrew W. Gurman (2016–2017) David O. Barbe (2017–2018) Barbara L. McAneny (2018–2019) Patrice Harris (2019–2020) Susan R. Bailey (2020–2021) Gerald E. Harmon (2021–2022) Jack Resneck Jr. (2022–2023) Jesse Ehrenfeld (2023–)

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