New AMA president always knew she wanted to be Catholic and a doctor

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – When she was 8 years old, Nancy H. Nielsen knew two things: She wanted to be a Catholic and she wanted to be a physician. Raised a Baptist, Nielsen achieved the first goal shortly after she started college at West Virginia University in Morgantown. It was more than a decade and five children later that she entered medical school and started down the path that led to her inauguration June 17 as the 163rd president – and the second woman president – of the American Medical Association.

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