New ACP President and Chair of the Board of Regents Champion a Culture of Giving Back

Their career-long devotion to ACP and its mission has paved the way for their continuing advocacy efforts

April 24, 2026 (ACP) -- Dr. Jan K. Carney, new American College of Physicians president, and Dr. Charles J. Hamori, chair of the ACP Board of Regents, are ready to roll up their sleeves and start advocating for internal medicine physicians and their patients.

Carney, an associate dean for public health and health policy, a professor of medicine and chief of the public health division in the department of medicine at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine in Burlington, knows she has her work cut out for her, given today's challenging public health landscape.

“I worry about the health of our nation, which is inseparable from the health of our global partners, and about our declining vaccination rates, high health and living costs, not enough access to physicians who can deliver primary, whole-person, comprehensive, and longitudinal care, and a runaway epidemic of misinformation,” she said. “As ACP president, I will advocate for ACP's policies to support and strengthen the health of our profession, our patients, our nation and our global communities.”

Advocacy work has always been a focus for Carney, who specializes in preventive medicine and public health.

“During my own journey in medicine, I realized that there were far too many missed opportunities to prevent disease and human suffering,” she said. “I learned that the key to improving health outcomes is working in partnership with other physicians, research scientists, nurses, public health professionals, community organizations, policymakers and professional associations. As physicians, we can do so much to help others, no matter what our roles or where we work.”

Carney, who became a fellow of ACP (FACP) in 2003 and received Mastership in 2019, has devoted much of her career to the College. She has served as a governor, member of the Board of Regents and a member or chair of several ACP committees.

“The American College of Physicians has always been my professional home,” she said. “In my view, there is no better, no stronger or a more needed professional organization than the American College of Physicians. “

In his new role as chair of the ACP Board of Regents, Hamori, a partner at Southern California Permanente Medical Group in La Mesa, plans to focus on infrastructure upgrades for an enhanced ACP member experience.

“This will allow us to better engage our members in the way they want to be engaged and also help us support our local chapters in a more consistent way,” he said. “We are updating and refining our educational offerings to reflect the changing workforce in internal medicine and to enhance lifelong learning opportunities for our members.”

Part of this strategy involves working with the American Board of Internal Medicine to help members better leverage the ACP Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program in their maintenance of certification process. “We will aim to continue to be the go-to professional home for all of internal medicine,” Hamori said.

In the coming year, ACP will build-on and use its policy on artificial or augmented intelligence (AI) in medicine to advocate on behalf of its members and their patients. “AI has crept into our day-to-day lives with lightning speed, and how this will affect our profession is anybody's guess,” he said. “We already see it being used by insurance companies to deny claims from doctors and in prior authorization.”

ACP is one of the voices calling for prudent, ethical use of AI in medicine, Hamori stressed.

Hamori joined ACP as a third-year medical student for the Annals and ACP Journal Club and stayed because he felt he found his professional home. He has also served as the governor of the California Southern Region III chapter of ACP and has been active on the governor's council for the last five years. Hamori became a fellow of ACP in 2007.

“ACP cares about internal medicine physicians and our professional well-being,” he said. “ACP provides the resources and the programming and the advocacy that make our lives just a little bit more manageable, and to me, that is priceless. I give back to ACP because it has given so much to me.”

Back to the April 24, 2026 issue of ACP Advocate