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| Dr. Ronald Franks speaks during the Medical Association of the State of Alabama's 14th annual conference on May 23 in Destin, Fla., where he was installed as president. |
DESTIN, Fla. – Mobile psychiatrist Ronald D. Franks, MD, was recently installed as the 2014-2015 president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, the oldest and largest organization representing physicians and medicine in Alabama.
Dr. Franks is vice president for
health sciences at the University of South Alabama where he also serves as a
professor of psychiatry. He previously served as vice president for health
affairs and dean of medicine at East Tennessee State University and has served
as both secretary-treasurer and president elect for MASA. He is certified by
the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Distinguished Life
Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Franks graduated from the
University of Michigan Medical School, then served a medical internship at Virginia
Mason Hospital before completing a four-year psychiatry residency at the
University of Colorado School of Medicine.
He has served on numerous national
committees and boards of directors, as well as previously serving as chair of
the Liaison Committee of Medical Education, and vice chair of the MCAT Review
Committee for the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is on the
governing council of the American Medical Association and serves on the Medical
Society of Mobile County’s Board of Censors. He is an author and co-author of
numerous professional journal articles and book chapters and he is a regular
presenter to a variety of professional conferences.
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