It is my honor to announce the founding of the Persian American Medical Association (PAMA).

Since September 2022, the founders of PAMA have worked hard to create a nonprofit organization to focus on educational, scientific, and humanitarian matters.

We, the founders of PAMA would like to invite you to join us in this newly established medical association open to all health care professionals.

PAMA is currently going through a short transition period where we have elected temporary board members, and we have setup the necessary framework and structure to operate a functional organization. We will soon announce and hold a democratic election for the Board of Directors (BOD) and Board of Trustees (BOT) to run the daily business of the association.

Meanwhile we have invited several high profile Iranian physicians as honorary members and we will invite other known colleagues to join us to create a democratic, progressive, dynamic, scientific, and humanitarian association.

As the interim president and on behalf of other PAMA founders, I would like to welcome and invite all the physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, physical therapists and all allied health professionals and also researchers, fellows, residents and students in the respective fields, with Persian heritage, regardless where they might reside, from across the globe, as addressed in PAMA bylaws, to join us in PAMA and support your newly established medical and health care association.

In order to see other founders of PAMA, please see the website at: www.pama.ngo

Sincerely,Hosein Shokouh-Amiri, MD, FACS, FICS,
Interim President of PAMA,
Clinical Professor of Surgery,
Director, Liver Transplant at WK/John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center