AMA Leadership Award
Third-Year Student Receives AMA Leadership Award
Edward Gometz
Ed Gometz, a third-year medical student at the Pritzker School of Medicine, has been named a recipient of the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation’s 2008 Leadership Award. This award provides its winners with special training to develop their skills as future leaders in organized medicine. Recipients of the award are recognized for demonstrating outstanding non-clinical leadership skills in advocacy, community service, and education.
As a medical student, Ed has been an active leader in the AMA. He served as a Pritzker Delegate to the AMA, and, along with fourth-year student and Alternate Delegate Joe Novak, wrote a Pritzker Students Pass New Resolution Within the AMA resolution to the AMA that acknowledges NASA’s role in the advancement of health care technologies (see following article). Ed was recently elected by fellow student delegates from other medical schools to be a regional delegate from the medical student section of the AMA. In that position, Ed is 1 of 20 medical students nationwide who vote in the AMA’s Physician House of Delegates, the body that creates AMA policy.
Of Ed’s contributions to the AMA, Pritzker, and beyond, fellow classmate Joe Novak notes, “Ed is the archetype of the ardent student who recognizes needs, gets involved, and works within the system to enact change. Recognizing his leadership is a testament to the work we can accomplish and the difference we can make as medical student leaders in organized medicine and beyond.”
