Sternberg inducted as president of the Medical Society of Mobile County

Michael L. Sternberg, M.D.

Michael L. Sternberg, M.D., professor of emergency medicine, was inducted earlier this month as the president of the Medical Society of Mobile County. In this prestigious position, Sternberg will lead more than 1,000 physicians in an organization that 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. 

Sternberg 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 said he is proud of the efforts taken by the medical society to support medical education, the Rapahope Children’s Retreat Foundation, the Medical Alliance of Mobile County, the Mobile County Health Department, and the Mobile Medical Museum. 

“As part of USA Health and the University of South Alabama, the Flagship of the Gulf Coast, I encourage greater membership and participation in this organization,” he said. “The benefits of membership including physician networking opportunities, social events, state representation, and service to our profession and community are well worth it.” 

The purpose of the Medical Society of Mobile County, founded in 1841, is to promote and develop the science of medicine, to conserve and protect the public health, and to promote the betterment of the medical profession.