Modern Healthcare physician affairs reporter Andis Robeznieks interviews the new president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven. An infectious disease specialist from Lexington, Ky., Hoven talks about the recent meeting of the AMA House of Delegates and the AMA's efforts to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth-rate physician payment formula. Hoven says medical education will be one of her priorities as president, and she predicts a good year ahead for physicians and the AMA.