Save the Date: CMA's 2025 House of Delegates Is Oct. 18-19 in Los Angeles

Dear Colleagues: 

The 154th Annual Session of the California Medical Association (CMA) House of Delegates (HOD) will convene October 18-19, 2025, at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. As you plan your participation in the meeting, your Speakers request that you carefully review the following information.

Major Issue Topic
The House of Delegates establishes broad policy on current major issues that have been determined by the Committee of Delegation Chairs (CDC), Speakers and the Board to be the most important issues affecting members, the Association and the practice of medicine. The CDC met in May to develop a proposal identifying that topic for 2025: Responding to Federal Funding Cuts and Other Attacks on Health Care, Public Health and Medicine

We are now accepting member comments about this major issue topic through July 20. If you have any input on the direction of the topic, now is the time to offer your testimony. Testimony offered during this period will help guide the Councils in the development of their reports.

HOD Schedule
Registration will open in the afternoon on Friday, Oct. 17. We highly suggest checking in at Registration in advance of the inevitable rush on Saturday morning. All members must check in to be counted for quorum and for Delegates to be eligible to vote. Sessions of this year's House are tentatively scheduled as follows:

• Session 1: Saturday, Oct. 18, from 8 to 11:30 a.m.
• Session 2: Saturday, Oct. 18, from 1 to 5 p.m.
• Session 3: Sunday, Oct. 19, from 8 to 11:30 a.m.
• Session 4: Sunday, Oct. 19, from 1 to 3:30 p.m.

In addition to conducting various elections, hearing from leaders in organized medicine, honoring members with awards and other business (including an anticipated report from the Governance Technical Advisory Committee), the weekend will consist of education and debate on our major issue, spread across four general sessions of the House. We hope to adjourn no later than 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. A draft schedule of the weekend’s major events and activities will soon be posted on the HOD website and be continuously updated until HOD. Please check with your delegation coordinator for information about your own delegation’s caucus meetings and meal functions.

Hotel Accommodations
CMA has secured a block of guest rooms reserved at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles at a special rate. Once we post the link to the room block in July, delegates are strongly advised to book early, since the room block is limited and the discounted rate may no longer be offered after the block has been filled.

Childcare
As in the past, CMA is arranging for childcare accommodations. More information will be posted as it becomes available. Be on the lookout for a future email for additional details and a link to sign up. In the meantime, please help us adequately plan for your childcare needs by indicating the number of children and their ages in an email to Navdeep Dhaliwal.

Meeting Registration and Rosters
All delegates and alternate delegates will be pre-registered for the meeting based on delegation rosters submitted to CMA. Delegates and alternates should be duly elected or appointed per the method or manner prescribed to each delegation in the CMA Bylaws. If you have questions about if you are recorded as a 2025 delegate or alternate, please contact Kelvin Hailey.

Meeting Materials and Wi-Fi
House of Delegates agenda materials will be posted to the House of Delegates website. Paper copies will not be provided. All reports must be presented for consideration at least 30 days before the opening of the House. Ancillary materials will be posted in September. This will afford delegations an opportunity to caucus prior to the opening of the House, if they wish to do so. Wi-Fi will be provided in all meeting rooms, including caucus meeting rooms, for on-site access to the materials. 

Reminder: 2025 Annual Physician Awards
CMA is seeking nominations for its annual awards, presented at HOD. Each award recognizes special contributions to an aspect of CMA membership and/or the practice of medicine. For a description of the awards and nominations directions, click here. The deadline to submit nominees is 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, July 2.

We look forward to a productive 154th Annual Session – and we hope you also take time to enjoy your stay in Los Angeles. We wish to encourage any of you to contact us, through your delegation chairs or directly, with questions, concerns or recommendations regarding this year’s House!

Thank you,

Jack Chou, M.D.
Speaker of the House
Tel: (626) 851-6345
jackchoumd@gmail.com

George Fouras, M.D.
Vice-Speaker of the House
Tel: (415) 867-6485
geofou@sbcglobal.net