Wisconsin Doctor Raj Ambay Elected to the AMA Board of Trustees

CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Medical Association
(AMA) today announced Raj Ambay, M.D., D.D.S., a resident in plastic surgery
in Madison, Wisconsin, is elected to the AMA Board of Trustees. Dr. Ambay's
election to the resident position on the Board was confirmed today at the AMA
Annual Meeting in Chicago.

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"I am humbled and honored to have the opportunity to work with the AMA on
behalf of the profession of medicine and its patients," said Dr. Ambay.

Dr. Ambay has a long record of service in health care. He completed a
prestigious two-year Physician-Scientist Research Fellowship through the
National Institute of Health at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Dr.
Ambay's research has won six first-place national awards, including the AMA
Resident and Fellow Section's (AMA-RFS) Best Overall Research in 2006. Dr.
Ambay graduated from Northwestern University Dental School in 1993, and earned
his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in
2002. He subsequently completed three years of general surgery at the Mayo
Clinic.

Dr. Ambay's dedication goes beyond the medical field. As a major in the U.S.
Army Reserve, Dr. Ambay served after 9/11 through Operation Noble Eagle. He
earned the Army Meritorious Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism
Medal. Dr. Ambay also served as alderman for his community in the southwest
suburbs of Chicago from 1993 to 1997. He put his entrepreneurial skills to use
when he founded an Internet company in 1989.

Dr. Ambay has served as chair of the AMA-RFS, board member of the National
Board of Medical Examiners, member of the Introduction to the Practice of
Medicine Advisory Board and as resident alternate delegate and delegate to the
AMA for his specialty society. Dr. Ambay and his wife have lived in Madison,
Wisconsin for four years, but will soon move to Texas where Dr. Ambay will
begin a fellowship in microsurgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

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