Dr. Alma Rose George grew up in the National Medical Association--literally. As a youngster, she accompanied her parents to NMA conventions and tagged along behind her father, Dr. Phillip M. George. “I guess that is what I wanted to do because by the time I was 8, I was going around with my father in Mississippi delivering babies,” she says. “I even had my own bag at that age.” As an adult, Dr. George has a thriving medical career to go with her doctor’s bag. The Detroit surgeon recently realized a “lifelong ambition” when she was installed as the 90th president and the third woman to lead the National Medical Association.