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Medical Board Elects Officers for 2008-2009

The Composite State Board of Medical Examiners elected its new President and Vice-President for the 2008-2009 year at its June 6, 2008 meeting. Elected to the post of President was Jean Rawlings Sumner, MD, of Wrightsville, GA. Dr. Sumner is a physician in private practice at Washington County Internal Medicine, where she specializes in geriatrics and long-term care. She has served as president of the East Georgia Medical Society and the Georgia Medical Directors Association, as chairman of the Johnson County Board of Health, and is a member of the Georgia Rural Health Association. Dr. Sumner is a graduate of the Mercer University School of Medicine.

Elected to the post of Vice-President was John T. “Ted” Perry, MD, of Cartersville, GA. Dr. Perry is the president and senior associate at Cartersville Surgical Associates. He is a director of Century Bank and the chairman of the governmental committee for the Bartow Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Medical Association of Georgia, the Georgia Surgical Society and the Atlanta Vascular Society. Dr. Perry is a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia.