"Don't let others design your future", new CMA president tells physicians. Interview by Nancy Robb.

Dr. Judith Kazimirski of Nova Scotia becomes the CMA's 126th president during the association's annual meeting in Sydney, NS, this month. She says her priority for the next year is to help the CMA play a lead role as the debate intensifies about the future of health and health care in Canada. "The time is right for a very public debate about what people want their system to be, what problems they're having, and how reform is moving ahead," she says, "and physicians have a critical leadership role to play."