Ronald Davis (physician)

Ronald Mark Davis (June 18, 1956 – November 6, 2008) was an American physician who specialized in preventive medicine and was a public health and tobacco control advocate.

Davis served a one-year term as president of the American Medical Association from 2006 to June 2007.

After being diagnosed with the disease in February 2008, Davis used his role as the AMA's president to encourage doctors to increase awareness of pancreatic cancer, a disease that ultimately killed Davis and which kills 34,000 Americans each year.

Davis provided memorable keynote addresses, at the 2008 AMA meeting, and to the AAPHP on June 14, 2008.

Davis died at age 52 on November 6, 2008, in his home near East Lansing, Michigan.