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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