G. Hamilton Francis

NMA President, G. Hamilton Francis, M.D., of Norfolk, Virginia, recommended the recruitment of younger men into the Association, the establishment of a women's auxiliary for the Association, and the reorganization into different branches of the profession, to afford consultation with specialists and improved services at reasonable cost and in order thereby to meet the threat of socialized medicine'..

1935The focus of the National Medical Association convention was on the principles and concepts of group health insurance, group hospitalization, and pre-payment.