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Dr. Edward Hill, a board certified family physician from Tupelo, Mississippi is president-elect of the AMA. He was elected to the AMA Board of Trustees in June 1996, re-elected in 1999 and was formerly the chairman of the board. Since 1984 he has served as an AMA delegate from the Mississippi State Medical Association after beginning service as an alternate delegate in 1979. In 1990 he was appointed by the Board of Trustees to the AMA’s council on legislation and served as vice chair from 1995-1996.
Dr. Hill has served in many leadership positions including Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the Mississippi State Medical Association, president of the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians, an alternate delegate and delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians, and president of the Southern Medical Association. Dr. Hill has BS and MD degrees from the University of Mississippi. Due to his wealth of medical practice experience and recognition as a role model for young doctors, in 1995 he was asked to become director of the family practice residency program at North Mississippi Medical Center, the nation’s largest rural hospital. Stepping down from the directorship in 2001, he remains on the faculty full time and has an active practice. | 