Dwight Locke Wilbur was a medical doctor and president of the American Medical Association

American Medical Association

The American Medical Association , founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of medical doctors and medical students in the United States.-Scope and operations:...

. During his 1968-69 tenure, he was instrumental in convincing that organization to accept Medicare

Medicare (United States)

Medicare is a social insurance program administered by the United States government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over; to those who are under 65 and are permanently physically disabled or who have a congenital physical disability; or to those who meet other...

 after many years of opposition.

Wilbur, son of Secretary of the Interior and AMA President Ray Lyman Wilbur

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Ray Lyman Wilbur was an American medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.-Early life:...

, graduated from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 in 1923 and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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 in 1926. He was a founder of both the San Francisco Society of Internal Medicine and the California Society of Internal Medicine. As a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at Stanford starting in 1949, he published more than 200 scholarly articles.