Welcome to this month’s, March 2026, newsletter!

Dear friends and colleagues, Opening reflection and context: Writing the newsletter for March has proven more challenging than anticipated. I was hoping to write about glass ceilings, and how NAAMA, as a unique, wide network in the US, allows us, from learners to senior physicians, to get through those glass ceilings that curtail our growth, ambitions. I was going to comment on the very successful iftars and interfaith events our various NAAMA chapters had helped in the past few weeks. Hundreds of colleagues and friends gathered because of the strength of our dedicated chapter organizing committees. However, the war has been unleashed and made all conversations almost moot. The stories shifted to mass displacement of more than a million individuals in Lebanon, and to the continuing dire circumstances in Gaza, the continued difficulties in Syrian Yemen and Sudan.