MOBILE, Ala. – Michael L. Sternberg, M.D., was inducted in December as president of the Medical Society of Mobile County. He is an emergency medicine physician at USA Health University Hospital and serves as a professor and clerkship director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of South Alabama Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine.

In this prestigious position, Sternberg will lead more than 1,000 physicians in the Medical Society of Mobile County, which provides representation to the state’s medical association and advocates for a number of public service programs.

“I consider it a great honor to represent the medical community in this 183-year-old organization, the first medical society founded in the state of Alabama,” he said in his acceptance speech at the Country Club of Mobile.

Sternberg has been involved in multiple previous local and state leadership positions. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Mobile Medical Museum, the Board of Censors of the medical society, and is the immediate past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mobile County Health Department. He has been on the Council of Continuing Medical Education and is a multi-year delegate and counselor to the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, as well as a board member and past president of the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

As one of the longest-serving emergency medicine student clerkship directors in the country, Sternberg is passionate about education. He has earned more than 30 teaching awards, including the Best Clinical Attending three times, Academic Teacher of the Year, and Clinical Instructor of the Year from the Whiddon College of Medicine, the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and the Department of Physician Assistant Studies.

Sternberg earned his medical degree from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed residency training at USA before joining the emergency medicine faculty at the Whiddon College of Medicine in 1992. He is board certified in emergency medicine and internal medicine.