 Family physician J. Edward Hill, M.D., is AMA's new president-elect. |
Delegates at the annual meeting of the AMA House of Delegates in Chicago on June 15 elected family physician J. Edward Hill, M.D., of Tupelo, Miss., AMA president-elect. Nominated by the Mississippi State Medical Association and endorsed by the AAFP, Hill will serve as AMA president from June 2005 to June 2006.
Hill has served on the AMA Board of Trustees since 1996 and is a past AMA board chair. He is also past president of the state medical association and the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians.
Hill practiced in the rural Mississippi Delta for 26 years and has seen firsthand the critical difference that access to health care services can make in patients' lives.
"We know that the health care system is in dire need of improvement, and we must work together to make changes that will shape the future of medicine," Hill said in a June 15 news release on his election. "We have a tremendous opportunity to reform a system that is just not meeting all the needs of our patients and our profession."
Go to http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/1616-8633.html for a news release on Hill's election.
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