Friday, March 20, 2020

USA College of Medicine mourns loss of internal medicine professor

Joseph Potter Michalski, M.D., who served as professor of internal medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine and a rheumatologist with USA Health, passed away on March 13, 2020. The Mobile resident was 75 and recently retired from USA Health.

A Montgomery native, Michalski received his medical degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore in 1970. He completed a residency at San Francisco General in San Francisco. He did research for many years in California and at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge before joining USA.

“It was an honor to work with Dr. Michalski,” said Errol D. Crook, M.D., professor and Abraham Mitchell Chair of Internal Medicine and director of the USA Center for Healthy Communities. “He was a great physician and a great colleague. He will be greatly missed.”

Read the obituary for Joseph Potter Michalski, M.D.