Israel Medical Association (IMA), is a professional association of physicians in Israel .
25-796: The association traces its origins to the Hebrew Medicinal Society for Jaffa and the Jaffa District , founded in 1912, which later became the Hebrew Medical Association in the Land of Israel (HMA) . Dr. Moshe Sherman, the country's first otolaryngologist, founded the association together with five other physicians. In 1935, he was elected chairman of the Israel Medical Association and later served as its honorary president. The IMA has
50-732: A junior high school/middle school ( collège ) and a senior high school/sixth form college ( lycée ) was created in 1961 in Ferney-Voltaire. As of 2016, the Lycée includes a branch campus in Saint-Genis-Pouilly . Ferney's main attraction is Voltaire's house ( château ), built 1758–66, now owned and administered by the Centre des monuments nationaux (an arm of the French Ministry of Culture). The chateau includes
75-500: A niece of Voltaire, Madame Dompierre de Fontaine [ fr ] . The school is notable for having had a large number of pupils who were children of physicists at CERN , which is located in the vicinity. Ferney-Voltaire also has a private preschool/primary school, École Saint-Vincent. Collège Le Joran (junior high school), in Prévessin-Moëns, serves Ferney-Voltaire. Lycée international de Ferney-Voltaire , including
100-525: A number of city names unchristened and then given more republican names. During Voltaire's residence in Ferney in the second part of the 18th century, the town saw rapid expansion. Today Ferney is a peaceful town with a Saturday market and a large international community, due to the proximity of CERN and the United Nations Office at Geneva . Ferney is growing very quickly. It is also home to
125-486: A smaller bust of him, surmounting a fountain; many restaurants, French and foreign; and proximity to the nearby cosmopolitan city of Geneva , Switzerland. Every Saturday, a market is held in the main street of Ferney. The old road at the centre of the village is a remnant of the time when Voltaire resided at the chateau in Ferney-Voltaire. The pedestal of the Voltaire statue, erected in 1890, dedicates that memorial to
150-559: A watchmaking industry and, of course, theatres, attracting rich people from Geneva to watch his plays. During Voltaire's residence, the population of Ferney increased to more than 1,000. Voltaire lived there for the last 20 years of his life before returning to Paris, where he died in 1778. The community has two public preschools/primary schools: École Jean-Calas and École Florian. A nearby intercommunal school, École Intercommunale Jean de la Fontaine in Prévessin-Moëns , also serves
175-816: A world fellowship program open to physicians around the world. The current head of the Medical Association Chairman is Dr. Leonid Eidelman. In 2007, Dr. Yoram Blacher, chairman of the IMA since 1995, was named president of the World Medical Association . The association marked its centennial year in November 2011 with a symposium and exhibition at the European Union headquarters in Brussels. The events were organized by
200-546: Is an international and independent confederation of free professional medical associations representing physicians worldwide. WMA was formally established on September 17, 1947 and has grown to 114 national medical associations, as of 2024, with 1467 Associate Members, including Junior Doctors and medical students. and more than 10 million physicians. WMA is in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and seeks close collaboration with
225-470: Is another impressive house, built in 1900 by Monsieur Lambert (the sculptor of the statue of Voltaire; his family owned the chateau before it was purchased by the French government). The house, now privately owned, had been used to store provisions and wine for the chateau, and to accommodate the household staff. The village features 18th-century houses and artisans' workshops; a life-size statue of Voltaire;
250-573: The Canadian Medical Association stated that parts of the speech by WMA's incoming president Leonid Eidelman had been plagiarized from a speech made in 2014 by Chris Simpson (cardiologist) who was then the president of CMA. Current president Gigi Osler told the group that part of the address was "copied word for word" from Simpson's speech. "Multiple other parts of the speech were also copied from various websites, blogs and news articles, without proper appropriate attribution to
275-595: The Jura Mountains and the Swiss border ; it forms part of the metropolitan area of Geneva . It is named for Voltaire , who lived there from 1758. Ferney was first noted in 14th-century Burgundian registers as "Fernex" and changed several times until the 19th century to Fernay, Fernaj, Fernai or Fernex before adopting its current name as 'Ferney-Voltaire' in 1791, after the French Revolution which saw
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#1732772226118300-490: The Lycée International . Voltaire still presides over Ferney with his statue in the centre of town. From 1758 to 1778 Ferney was home to French writer and philosopher Voltaire , sometimes referred to as "the patriarch of Ferney." His influence on the town was profound. He built the local church and founded cottage industries that produced some of the finest potters and watchmakers of modern France. The town
325-622: The Belgian Jewish Doctors’ Group, Bnai Brit International and the Board of Deputies of British Jews. In January 2019, the Israel Medical Association banned members from performing conversion therapy on patients. The association publishes two journals: Harefuah (Medicine) in Hebrew with English abstracts and Israel Medical Association Journal (IMAJ). World Medical Association The World Medical Association ( WMA )
350-879: The National Member Associations, officers and members of the Council of the WMA, and representatives of the Associate Members (Associate Members are individual physicians who wish to join the WMA). The Assembly elects the WMA Council every two years with representatives drawn from each of the six WMA regions, namely Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Pacific. It also elects
375-841: The Secretary-General is in full-time employment at the Secretariat, appointed by the WMA Council. The WMA Secretariat is situated in Ferney-Voltaire , France , near Geneva . Since 2005, Otmar Kloiber is the Secretary-General. English , French , and Spanish are the official languages of the association since its creation. The WMA has the following classes of membership: During the World Medical Association General Assembly in Reykjavík in early October 2018, members of
400-1006: The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health. The WMA was founded on 17 September 1947, when physicians from 27 countries met at the First General Assembly of the WMA in Paris. This organization was built from an idea born in the House of the British Medical Association in 1945, within a meeting organized in London to initiate plans for an international medical organization to replace l'Association Professionnelle Internationale des Médecins", which had suspended its activities because of World War II . In order to facilitate financial support from its member associations, in 1948,
425-524: The WMA president annually, who is the Ceremonial Head of the WMA. The President, President Elect and Immediate Past President form the Presidium that is available to speak for the WMA and represent it officially. Every two years, the WMA Council, excluding the Presidium, elects a Chairperson who is the political head of the organization. As Chief Executive of the operational units of the WMA,
450-624: The authors", she latter added in a statement. A motion by Canada at the Assembly to call on Eidelman to resign was not successful. On 6 October, the CMA resigned; their press release stated that the decision was made because WMA was not upholding ethical standards. In an email to The Canadian Press , WMA spokesman Nigel Duncan said that Eidelman's speech had been written by others and that he did not know that it might contain plagiarism. A WMA source also told The Canadian Press that Eidelman apologized at
475-488: The community. As of 2018 the three schools had a combined total of 952 students, with Jean-Calas, Florian, and Jean de la Fontaine respectively having 278, 307, and 367 students. Around 1940 a primary school, the École de Ferney-Voltaire, was established. About 1970 it was renamed École Florian , after the French poet and fabulist Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian , whose uncle and guardian, the Marquis de Florian, had married
500-715: The executive board, known as the Council, established the Secretariat of the WMA in New York City in order to provide close liaison with the United Nations and its various agencies. The WMA Secretariat remained in New York City until 1974 when for reasons of economy, and in order to operate within the vicinity of Geneva -based international organizations (WHO, ILO, ICN, ISSA, etc.) it was transferred to its present location in Ferney-Voltaire , France . The WMA members gathered in an annual meeting, which from 1962
525-587: The general assembly, after the Canadian delegates had departed; he "acknowledge[d] that part of his speech was taken from Simpson", and most delegates "accepted his apology" for the mistake. Ferney-Voltaire Ferney-Voltaire ( French pronunciation: [fɛʁ'nɛ vɔl'tɛʁ] ) is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It lies between
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#1732772226118550-449: The main building, with a reconstruction of Voltaire's room (moved from its original location by later private owners), a garden with a fine view of the Alps , and a church dedicated, contrary to custom, directly to God. In the church's inscription, " Deo erexit VOLTAIRE " ("Erected to God by VOLTAIRE"), Voltaire's name is written in the largest characters. A few dozen metres from the chateau
575-544: The same II General Assembly a report on "War Crimes and Medicine" was received. This prompted the Council to appoint another Study Committee to prepare an International Code of Medical Ethics , which after an extensive discussion, was adopted in 1949 by the III General Assembly. The main decision-making body of the WMA is the General Assembly, which meets annually and is formed by delegations from
600-559: Was eventually renamed "Ferney-Voltaire" in his honour. In 1758, after having lived in Geneva for less than two years, Voltaire purchased the estate of Ferney in France, near the Swiss border. A prime reason for his leaving Geneva was that theatre was forbidden in that Calvinist city, so he had decided to become the enlightened "patriarch" of the little village of Ferney, setting up potteries,
625-470: Was named "World Medical Assembly." Since its beginning WMA has shown concern over the state of medical ethics in general and over the world, and worked on a modernized wording of the ancient oath of Hippocrates, which was sent for consideration at the II General Assembly in Geneva in 1948. The medical vow was adopted and the Assembly agreed to name it the " Declaration of Geneva ."Also in
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