Officials
Secretaries, Editors, Press Officers and Legal Advisors
| WMA Secretary General | |||
| Louis H. BAUER. USA | 1947-1961 | ||
| Heinz LORD, Germany | 1961 | ||
| H. S. GEAR, South Africa | 1961-1965 | ||
| A. Z. ROMUALDEZ, Philippines | 1965-1973 | ||
| Sir W. REFSHAUGE, Australia | 1973-1976 | ||
| André WYNEN, Belgium | 1976-1993 | ||
| Ian T. FIELD, U.K. | 1994-1997 | ||
| Delon HUMAN, South Africa | 1997-2004 | ||
| Otmar KLOIBER, Germany | 2005- | ||
| Executive editors of the World Medical Journal | |||
| Morris FISHBEIN, USA | 1948-1953 | ||
| (Hon. Editor, World Medical Bulletin) | |||
| Austin SMITH, USA | 1953-1959 | ||
| Stanley GILDER, Scotland | 1959-1973 | ||
| Anthony WINK, UK | 1973-1986 | ||
| Ivan GILLIBRAND, UK | 1986-2003 | ||
| Alan ROWE, UK | 2004-2007 (Co-Editor from 2008-2021) | ||
| Elmar DOPPELFELD, Germany | 2004-2021 (Co-Editor) | ||
| Peteris APINIS, Latvia | 2008-2021 (Editor-in-Chief) | ||
| Maira SUDRABA, Latvia | 2008- (Assistant Editor) | ||
| Helena CHAMPMAN, USA | 2022- (Editor-in-Chief) | ||
| Press relations officers | |||
| Nobody before 1981 | |||
| Eric CYPRES, Belgium | 1981-1983 | ||
| Nobody in 1984 | |||
| Toni RUBIN, Belgium | 1985-1994 | ||
| Nigel DUNCAN, UK | 1994-2023 | ||
| Legal Advisor (General Counsel) | |||
| Henri Anrys | 1976-1995 | ||
| Sharon Ostrowski, USA | 1995-2006 | ||
| Leah Wapner, Israel | 2006-2007 | ||
| Annabel Seebohm, Germany | 2007-2016 | ||
| Leah Wapner, Israel | 2016 | ||
| Marie Colegrave-Juge, France | 2016-2022 | ||
| Mervi Kattelus, Finland | 2022- | ||