Misty Richards Represents American Medical Women’s Association at White House Holiday Open House Tour

Misty Richards, the American Medical Women’s Association Student President, attended a White House Holiday Open House Tour on Friday, December 18^th, 2009 at 3:30PM.  She arrived at the Southeast Gate at Alexander Hamilton Place and East Executive Avenue, right off of 15th Street and E Street, NW.   The White House tour was self-guided.  However, United States Secret Service officers were posted in every room to provide historical information about the room and the White House. 

Ms. Richards is a medical student at Albany Medical College and is also on the Board of Directors for the Engeye Health Clinic in Uganda.  She is also a Fulbright Scholar who spent a year doing research in Japan from 2008-2009.

For more information about AMWA, please contact AMWA immediate past President Claudia S. Morrissey MD, MPH at morrisseyconlon@gmail.com.

About American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) is an organization of women physicians, medical students and other persons dedicated to serving as the unique voice for women's health and the advancement of women in medicine. The organization was founded by Dr. Bertha VanHoosen in 1915 in Chicago, at a time when women physicians were an under-represented minority. As women in medicine increase in numbers, new problems and issues arise that were not anticipated. AMWA has been addressing these issues for 93 years. AMWA functions at the local, national and international level to advance women in medicine and improve women’s health by providing and developing leadership, advocacy, education, expertise, mentoring and through building strategic alliances.  The American Women’s Hospital Service (AWHS), a program within AMWA, has agreed to cover the salary of the Engeye Clinic’s nurse on an ongoing basis, which translates to $170.00 a month.  The AMWA is located at: 100 North 20th Street, 4th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103. The phone number is: 215-320-3716 and the website is: http://www.amwa-doc.org/