Gamini Soori.

Gamini Soori, MD, MBA, FACP, FRCP, CPE from Omaha, Nebraska was elected to head the International Medical Graduate Section of the American Medical Association during the annual convention held recently in Chicago. The IMG Section includes over 35,000 members of the AMA representing 15 percent of the total AMA membership. The governing council of the IMG Section will be chaired by Soori. The International Medical Graduates represent approximately one fourth of the U.S. physicians in practice and in residency and fellowship training. Previously, Soori was a member of the Governing Council of the IMG section. He has been an alternate delegate to the AMA House of Delegates and to the national Commission to End Health Care Disparities. Soori is a medical oncologist and hematologist practicing with Oncology Hematology West, P.C. in Omaha and is the medical director of Alegent Bergan Mercy Cancer Center and co-director of its bone marrow transplantation program. He serves as the chairman of the network cancer program which consists of five cancer centers in the Alegent Health System. He has recently served as the president of the medical staff of Alegent Bergan Mercy Medical Center and is a clinical professor of medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine. Soori also is a co-founder, past president and current principal investigator of the Missouri Valley Cancer Consortium funded by the National Cancer Institute. At the North Central Cancer Treatment Group based at the Mayo Clinic, Soori serves as a member of the executive committee, novel therapeutics, health disparities and audit committees. Soori is one of the national recipients of the Excellence in Medicine Award for Leadership in 2006, presented by the AMA Foundation and the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative.