Dr. Rodney G. Hood New President Of The National Medical Association

Jet, Oct 23, 2000

Dr. Rodney G. Hood recently was installed as the 101st president of the National Medical Association (NMA) at the organization's annual convention in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Hood, who has held several leadership positions within the NMA, has been in private medical practice for more than 20 years and is currently the managing partner of Care-View Medical Group in San Diego, CA. He has extensive administrative experience in the fields of chemical dependency and managed care.

As NMA president, Hood will focus on the elimination of health disparities in communities of color, particularly in areas of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and HIV/ AIDS, as well as address racism and racial biases in medicine in an effort to support the government's Healthy People 2010 initiative.

A Boston native, Dr. Hood attended Northeastern University and graduated with honors from the School of Pharmacy. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego Medical School and was the first Black postgraduate to complete a residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center in 1976.

Dr. Hood is co-founder and president of MultiCultural Primary Physician Medical Group, a 300-physician IPA (Independent Physician Assn.) and founder of CompCare, a health plan with some 7,000 enrollees. He also serves on many boards and commissions in California that focus on health-care reform and managed care.

He and his wife, Robyn, are the parents of four children.