The Western Association of Physicians (WAP) is a regional
health association of academic physician-scientists. Over the years the society has grown to a membership of several hundred, including many distinguished academicians from diverse areas of medicine.
History
It was founded in 1955 by Robert Williams, the Chair of the Department of Medicine at the
University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...
, and other eminent physicians with the aim of establishing a western society analogous to the
Association of American Physicians
The Association of American Physicians (AAP) is an honorary medical society founded in 1885 by the Canadian physician Sir William Osler and six other distinguished physicians of his era for "the advancement of scientific and practical medicine ...
. Along with Williams, the founders of the WAP were Maxwell Wintrobe, Theodore Althausen, Joseph Ross, Clement Finch,
David A. Rytand, John Lawrence, and Gordon Meiklejohn. The organization's bylaws were approved in 1969.
Annual meeting
The Western Association of Physicians meets annually in
Carmel, California, to discuss and present research and other educational programs. Through 2016, the event was called the Western Regional Meeting; starting in 2017, it became the Western Medical Research Conference (WMRC), in partnership with other regional medical societies. The conference is held in late January.
References
External links
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Organizations established in 1955
Medical associations based in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Washington (state)
1955 establishments in Washington (state)
Health industry trade groups based in the United States