MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. — Mercy health system’s Dr. David Barbe has been named the president-elect of the World Medical Association (WMA).
Barbe has had 36 years of practice in Mountain Grove, and has served in several leadership roles in Mercy. He has also previously served in the Missouri State Medical Association and as the recent past president of the American Medical Association (AMA).
Delegates from more than 100 countries approved his nomination month during their annual convention in the eastern European city of Tbilisi, Georgia.
The WMA, which has an official relationship with the World Health Organization, is an international organization representing more than nine million physicians. Its members include 114 national medication associations. For the past three years, Dr. Barbe has been one of the three delegates from the AMA to the WMA.
Dr. Barbe will serve one year as president-elect and will be inaugurated as president of the WMA in October 2020 during the annual meeting in Córdoba, Spain.
