{"id":13540,"date":"2019-11-07T15:39:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Barbe-WMA-bio-5-30-19.pdf"},"modified":"2019-11-07T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:39:23","slug":"barbe-wma-bio-5-30-19-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/qui-nous-sommes\/dirigeants\/barbe-wma-bio-5-30-19-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbe WMA bio 5 30 19"},"author":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"

Barbe WMA bio 5 30 19<\/a><\/p>\n

DAVID O. BARBE, MD, MHA
\nDavid O. Barbe, MD, MHA, a board-certified family physician from Mountain Grove, Missouri,
\nUSA, was the 172nd
\npresident of the American Medical Association (AMA) from June 2017 to
\nJune 2018. He was a member of the AMA Board of Trustees (BOT) from 2009-2019. He served
\nas chair of the AMA-BOT from 2013\u20132014, and as a member of its Executive Committee from
\n2011\u20132015 and 2016-2019.
\nPrior to his election to the AMA-BOT, Dr. Barbe served on the AMA Council on Medical Service
\nfrom 2003-2009 including chair of the Council 2008-2009. As chair of the Council, Dr. Barbe
\nparticipated in the development of much of the AMA\u2019s policy related to coverage of the
\nuninsured, health care system reform, Medicare reform and health insurance market reform.
\nDr. Barbe was a member of the World Medical Association Council from 2016-2019, and
\nrepresents the AMA at international medical meetings. He has presented on behalf of the AMA
\nand WMA at meetings in Taiwan, China, Iceland, Israel and Japan on topics ranging from
\nmedical education and augmented intelligence to shaping the future of the physician practice
\nenvironment and expanding universal health coverage. Dr. Barbe was also the presiding AMA
\nofficer at the AMA-hosted WMA General Assembly in Chicago in 2017.
\nDr. Barbe received his bachelor\u2019s degree with honors in microbiology and his medical doctorate
\nfrom the University of Missouri\u2013Columbia School of Medicine. He completed his residency in
\nfamily medicine at the University of Kansas affiliated program in Wichita, Kansas. He also
\nreceived his Master of Health Administration from the University of Missouri\u2013Columbia.
\nFollowing residency, Dr. Barbe returned to his hometown of Mountain Grove in rural southern
\nMissouri and established a solo practice in traditional family medicine, including obstetrics,
\nendoscopy and minor surgery. Over time, Dr. Barbe expanded his independent practice to two
\nlocations and several physicians. After 14 years in independent practice, he merged his group
\nwith Mercy, Springfield, Missouri, a 650-physician multi-specialty integrated health system. He
\nnow serves as Vice President of Regional Operations for Mercy with responsibility for four
\nhospitals, 75 clinics and more than 200 physicians and advanced practitioners. Mercy has been
\nnamed one of the top five large health systems in the United States each year from 2016 –
\n2019.
\nDr. Barbe has a long history of service to organized medicine. He has been a member of the
\nAMA, the Missouri State Medical Association (MSMA) and the American Academy of Family
\nPhysicians for 30 years. He served on the MSMA Council continuously for more than 25 years,
\nserving as chair in 2003 and president in 2005. He was a delegate from Missouri to the AMA
\nfrom 1997 to 2009 and is past chair of the delegation. At the state level, Dr. Barbe has been a
\nlongtime member of MSMA\u2019s legislative committee, membership committee, and a board
\nmember of the Missouri Medical Political Action Committee.
\nDr. Barbe continues to live and practice in his hometown of Mountain Grove. He and his wife,
\nDebbie, BSN, RN, have two children and six grandchildren.<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

Barbe WMA bio 5 30 19 DAVID O. BARBE, MD, MHA David O. Barbe, MD, MHA, a board-certified family physician from Mountain Grove, Missouri, USA, was the 172nd president of the American Medical Association (AMA) from June 2017 to June 2018. He was a member of the AMA Board of Trustees (BOT) from 2009-2019. He […]<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"file","mime_type":"application\/pdf","media_details":{},"post":763,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Barbe-WMA-bio-5-30-19.pdf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13540"}]}}