{{Short description|Former president of the American Medical Association}} {{About|the former president of the American Medical Association|other people named Alan Nelson|Alan Nelson (disambiguation){{!}}Alan Nelson}} '''Alan R. Nelson, MD''' was president of the [[American Medical Association]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Health Care: The Step-by-step Guide for Cultural Competence Training|year=2008|publisher=Radcliffe Publishing|isbn=978-1-84619-294-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRwtdgk0AC8C&q=%22Alan+Nelson%22+medicine&pg=PT212|author=Jeffrey M. Ring|author2=Suzanne Mitchell|accessdate=19 December 2010|page=207}}</ref> from 1989 to 1990, and led the development of several initiatives including the Health Access America Program. He was president of the [[World Medical Association]] from 1991 to 1992. Nelson earned his [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] from [[Feinberg School of Medicine|Northwestern University Medical School]] in 1958. When the [[American College of Physicians]] and the [[American Society of Internal Medicine]] merged in 1998, Nelson headed its Washington office until January 2000. A member of the [[Institute of Medicine]], he serves on its Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences Research and Medicine.
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