Anmol S. Mahal, MD
Medical Director, Free Medical Clinic at India Community Center, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
Past President, American Medical Association Foundation

Anmol S Mahal, MD was elected the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the California Medical Association in March of 2004, and had served as its Vice Chair for the two prior years. He has represented the Ethnic Medical Organization Section on the CMA board since 1997. Dr. Mahal served on the CMA Technical Advisory Committee that was instrumental in establishing the EMOS as a permanent section of the CMA allowing ethnic physician organizations direct representation on the CMA Board and the CMA House of Delegates. He has been a member of the section since its inception.

Dr. Mahal has served on the Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists set up by the Department of Consumers Affairs of the State of California. He also served on the Subcommittee of the above task force required by Assembly Bill 2394 that studied the issue of licensing culturally and linguistically competent physicians. He recently was appointed to the American Medical Association Commission on Eliminating Health Disparities.

Dr Mahal has served as the President of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin of Northern California and presently serves of the AAPIO Board of Trustees. He has served as the Pacific Regional Director for the American Association of Physicians of India.  He also serves of the Board of Trustees of the Sikh Foundation in Palo Alto, California; and the Board of Trustees of the Indian Community Center in Milpitas, California.

Dr. Mahal has served as the Chief of Staff at Washington Hospital Healthcare System in Fremont, Ca. and was the recipient of the Leadership Award of that Medical Staff.
He is the recipient of many awards including the CMA Medical Student Section “Physicians Appreciation Award for involvement in the California Physician Corps”.

Dr. Mahal did his Pre-Medical education at Khalsa College in Amritsar, India and received his MD degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in 1972. He did his Internal Medicine residency and was a Chief Resident at the New Jersey Medical School. He then did a Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, CA. He has been in private practice of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine in Fremont, CA since 1979.

Dr. Mahal is married and his wife Surjit is a Family Physician. They have two children, a daughter Subena, who is in a Family Practice Residency and a son Vikram, who is in college.