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Dr. Lafontaine ready for new role as president-elect of Canadian Medical Association
Grande Prairie physician Dr. Alika Lafontaine was voted to become the 2021 president-elect nominee of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) earlier this week.
By becoming the president-elect, Lafontaine is making history in Canada, as he becomes the first-ever Indigenous nominee for CMA president in its history. He also becomes the first nominee for CMA president of Pacific Islander descent.
The President of the CMA is a three-year position. For the first year, Lafontaine will be considered the president-elect. By August 2022, Dr. Lafontaine will become the president, and in 2023 he will serve as the past president of the CMA, where he will then hand the job over to a doctor in British Columbia.
The chance to apply to become the President of the CMA only comes up once every 13 years.