Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

As an organization accredited by the ACCME, Southern Medical Association requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. The ACCME defines "relevant financial relationships" as financial relationships in any amount, occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest.

Southern Medical Association encourages Speakers/Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, at first mention and where appropriate in the content.

Speaker/Author

Mark S. Williams, MD, JD, MBA, CPE, is the Chief Physician Executive for Tenet’s Brookwood Baptist System in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the immediate past president of the Southern Medical Association. From 2008 to 2014 he served as the Chief Medical Officer of the North Mississippi Health System in Tupelo, Mississippi – the largest rural health care systems in the United States and the recipient of the 2012 National Malcolm Baldrige Award for Organizational Performance. A graduate of the University of South Alabama School of Medicine, Dr. Williams completed his post-graduate training as the chief resident in the department of anesthesiology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He is formerly a member of the governor’s Medicaid redesign committee and Healthcare Workforce committee in Mississippi, past board chairman of the Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation, and served as chief of staff of Carraway Methodist Medical Center from 2005 to 2007. From 2006 to 2008 he was the Chief Medical Officer for the St. Vincent’s system in Birmingham, Alabama and chairman of Ascension Health’s Physician Informatics Committee and Chair of Ascension’s Task Force on Disclosure of Unanticipated Outcomes. He is a 2001 graduate of the Alabama School of Law and a member of the Alabama State Bar. He completed the MBA program at Samford University in 1995 and is a former medical director for Alabama Power Company. He enjoys white water rafting in the wilds of Idaho and Montana. He and his wife Sandi have four children and one grandchild.

Disclosure

• Dr. Williams has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
• Dr. Williams does not intend to discuss off-label or investigational uses of drugs, mechanical devices, biologics, or diagnostics not yet approved by the FDA for use in the United States.

Content Reviewer

Michael C. Gosney, MD, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

SMA Staff

Kendra Blackmon, CME Program Manager, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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