Dr. Albert W. Morris, Jr. is new president of National Medical Assn

Jet, August 28, 2006

Dr. Albert W. Morris, Jr., a diagnostic radiologist in Memphis, was recently installed as president of the National Medical Association (NMA) during the organization's annual convention in Dallas.

More than 2,500 physicians who represent 24 medical specialties attended the NMA convention and scientific assembly. "Katrina was the writing on the wall," Dr. Morris said. He described the hurricane as a "powerful metaphor of the unrelenting and deadly significance of race and class."

Morris has held several leadership positions within the NMA, including chairman and secretary of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Council on Scientific Exhibits. He also served as president of the Bluff City Medical Society, the Memphis NMA affiliate that selected him "Physician of the Year."

Morris received his M.D. from Howard University College of Medicine in 1976 and completed his residency and fellowship training at the University of Tennessee in Memphis.