title: NMA Presidential Installation Speech: enormous progress, many more battles to fight.
abstract: During NMA's Annual Convention in Nashville, on August 7, 2001, Dr. Lucille Norville Perez was installed as the 102nd president of the National Medical Association. Her acceptance speech is printed below.
authors.affiliation: National Medical Association, Washington, DC 20001, USA.
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Perez
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States