When Baltimore internist and AMA trustee Willarda Edwards ran for AMA president, the organization accused her of vote trading. She has sued for defamation and conspiracy.
A prominent Baltimore physician claims in a new lawsuit that the American Medical Association thwarted her effort to become the organization’s second Black woman voted president-elect at its annual meeting in June. The lawsuit, brought by Dr. Willarda V. Edwards, was transferred this week to U.S. District Court in Baltimore from Baltimore County Circuit Court, .