Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D. - Elected August 2006
Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., is the third President of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) since its inception in 1972. Dr. Bussey brings to the position a wealth of working experience. At various times in his life he has been a truck and taxi driver, agricultural worker and general contractor, a Peace Corps volunteer, radio show host, elementary school teacher, flight surgeon and pilot, attorney, medical director, and family physician. He has been a member of a Teachers’ Union, the Teamsters, and most proudly a UAPD member since 1990. Dr. Bussey believes deeply in the principles of unionism, especially as it relates to the medical community.
Dr. Bussey is one of a few hundred physicians in the country who is also an active attorney. As such he continues to apply his legal knowledge to defend UAPD members who are unjustly accused of wrongdoing. He has been affiliated as a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine since 1993. He is on the Editorial Board of their Legal Lessons Magazine. He hopes to use this affiliation to broaden UAPD’s legal resources. He also wants to forge alliances with other likeminded organizations.
Dr. Bussey has been a State of California Medical Consultant in the Social Security Disability Evaluation Division since 1990. He has had a solo family practice in Walnut Creek, California since 1984. As both employee and employer he understands the rights and responsibilities of the worker.
As for his academic credentials, Dr. Bussey graduated with honors from Dartmouth in 1968, has a masters’ degree in Human Development from the University of Chicago, an M.D. from Loyola Medical School, and a J.D. from Golden Gate University. He completed his family practice residency at the University of California Irvine in 1981.