Barbara L. McAneny, MD, a board-certified medical oncologist/hematologist from Albuquerque, N.M,, became the 173rd president of the AMA. She has been a member of the AMA Board of Trustees and served as chair. She is a fellow and former member of the board of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), a master of the American College of Physicians, and past president of NM Medical Society (NMMS) and the Greater Albuquerque Medical Association. She served on the Community Oncology Alliance Board of Trustees and is one of the founders and current chair of the National Cancer Care Alliance, a group of independent practices collaborating to deliver high-quality, cancer care with alternative payment models based on data-driven principles. Dr. McAneny’s interest in using data to improve practice sustainability began when she was appointed to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s Practicing Physicians Advisory Council. She received a $19.8 million grant from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation to show how oncology practices could use triage pathways to lower costs, named COME HOME (Community Oncology Medical Home), later incorporated into Medicare’s Oncology Care Model. She co-founded NM Oncology Hematology Consultants Ltd in 1987 and built NM Cancer Center as the first physician-owned multi-disciplinary cancer center in the state. Dr. McAneny graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota and with honors from University of Iowa College of Medicine, completing her residency in internal medicine at the University of Iowa and fellowship in hematology/oncology at the University of New Mexico.