Andrew Gurman, MD

Andrew Gurman, MD

Andrew W. Gurman, MD, an orthopaedic hand surgeon from Altoona, Pa., was elected
vice speaker of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates in June
2007. He is a delegate from Pennsylvania and has been a member of the Pennsylvania
delegation for 16 years.

Dr. Gurman currently serves on both the AMA Board of Trustees (BOT) Audit and the AMA-BOT Awards and Nominations committees, as well as on the Task Force on Quality, Safety and Electronic Health Records. He also serves as board liaison to the Advisory Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues.

Dr. Gurman served as the speaker of the House of Delegates of the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PMS), and was a member of the board of trustees and the executive board of the PMS. He has presided over reorganization of the PMS House of Delegates meeting and streamlined the business of its House. He previously served as vice speaker of the PMS House of Delegates.

Dr. Gurman twice served as chairman of PAMPAC, the political action committee of the PMS. He has served on the PMS council on governmental relations (legislation) and has served on the council on legislation of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.

A native of New York City, Dr. Gurman grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y. He attended Syracuse University and received his MD degree from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, in 1980. He served his surgical internship and orthopaedic residency at the Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein Hospitals in the Bronx, N.Y., and completed his fellowship in hand surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute in New York City.

Dr. Gurman has been in private practice in Altoona, Pa. Starting as a solo practitioner, he led his group to become a multi-specialty musculoskeletal organization. He has served as
chair of the Altoona Hospital bylaws committee and orthopaedic surgery peer review committee, as well as chief of the orthopaedic service.

Dr. Gurman is a past president of the Blair County Medical Society. He has served as professional chair for the United Way campaign, and he has also been a member of the board of trustees of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Gurman resides in Hollidaysburg, Pa., with his wife, Nancy. They have two grown children.