Dr. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot Recognized for Her Advocacy Work
March 16, 2026
By Nadia Smith
Past CMA President and long-time member Dr. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot has been awarded the Mary Newman Advocacy Award by the American College of Physicians (ACP) – Maryland Chapter. The award recognizes her longstanding advocacy work on behalf of the ACP and in defense of the patients they serve.
Dr. Boursiquot, a board-certified internist, has a long tenure as a legislative representative testifying against Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS). She has served as the legislative representative to the Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi), participated in advocacy visits to the Capitol Hill to meet with legislators as well as with state legislators to defend the American College of Physicians position against Physician Assisted Suicide. She also serves on the chapter healthcare policy committee defending ACP’s position on PAS. She has been involved with legislative advocacy work in some way ever since she joined the ACP in the mid-90s.
She also advocates for the rights of physicians covering such issues as conscience protections, reasonable wages and reimbursements for medical services. She testified before a congressional panel on Capitol Hill on behalf of the CMA for the Conscience Protection Act of 2016. The act was passed in a bipartisan vote a month later. She has been a CMA member since the late 1990’s and served as the guild president of the Baltimore Guild for many years, where she was also a…
Dr. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot Recognized for Her Advocacy Work – Catholic Medical Association
