title: A brief historical sketch of the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America (ALIMDA), the predecessor of the American Academy of Insurance Medicine (AAIM).
abstract: This is a brief historical sketch of ALIMDA, the name of our professional organization when it was founded at a meeting of a few medical directors in New York City in 1898. The principal source for its contents is based on recollections of my own experience with ALIMDA/AAIM since I first became a member after appointment as an Assistant Medical Director of the company then known as New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, in Boston, in 1952. I was never an officer of ALIMDA or AAIM, but I attended most of its meetings, and I was involved in our mortality research activites.
authors.forename: Richard B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007352:Insurance, Life / Q000266:history*; D009026:Mortality; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history; D012952:Societies / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States