Lonnie R. Bristow

Biography

Lonnie Robert Bristow (born 1930) is an American physician and former president of the American Medical Association (AMA). In his early career he established a private practice in San Pablo, California, as an internist with a special interest in occupational medicine, and wrote on sickle cell disease and misinformation on sickle cell trait. As the first African American president of the AMA in its 148-year history, he headed the introduction of questions on medical ethics into medical board exams and encouraged education about HIV/AIDS. Bristow was a member of the Quality of Healthcare in America Committee of the Institute of Medicine, which published To Err is Human in 1999, and Crossing the Quality Chasm in 2001.

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