The Advisory Board of the Montgomery Regional Medical Campus of the UAB School of Medicine has appointed seven new community leaders to its 27-member board.Established in 1981, the role of the Advisory Board is to advocate for the regional campus in the river region. The board is tasked with providing counsel and advice to the regional dean and to the residency program directors in internal medicine, family medicine and emergency medicine. The board also provides support to the sponsoring institutions — the UAB School of Medicine and the respective teaching hospitals.
The new members are Golson Foshee, president of Foshee Management; Robert C. Granfeldt Jr., publisher and president of The Montgomery Advertiser; LaTora Todd Jackson, health adviser at Auburn University at Montgomery; Audrey Napier-Matthews, Ph.D., professor of biologic sciences at Alabama State University; Ben Stakely, CEO of Kowa Pharmaceuticals; Mike Tidwell, director of the Organization Department at the Alabama Farmers Federation; and Marty Vignes, executive director of the Southeast Alabama Area Health Education Center.