California Medical Association - History

History

The CMA and its leaders:

  • Started the state public health department in the 1870s;
  • Made immunizations compulsory for school children in the 1880s;
  • Began looking at ways to fund health care for the poor in the 1930s;
  • Performed some of the first cornea transplants, and set up some of the first organ transplant guidelines in the country; and
  • Started California’s first medical schools, which later became Stanford and University of California.

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