President
Jerry Keever, MBA, FACHE, NREMT
Sharkey-Issaquena Community Hospital & Nursing Home
President-Elect
Chris Threadgill
Baptist Memorial Hospital- Calhoun
Past President
Sherry Lindley, MRHF
North Mississippi Medical Clinics
Secretary
Sam Miller
North Sunflower Medical Center
Department of Veterans Affairs
GSV Cares Clinic
Director
Embra Jackson III, MPH, VHA-CM
South Central VA Health Care Network
Director
Luke Lampton, MD
Family Physician / Beacham Memorial Hospital
Director
Kelvin Monroe, CPA
North Mississippi Health System – Community Hospitals
Director
Deirdre M. “Lessa” Phillips, MD, MPH
Mississippi Medical Education and Research Consortium
Director
Paula Turner, MRHF
North Mississippi Medical Clinics
Liaisons to the Board
Markessa Hughes
Mississippi State Department of Health, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Dr. Wahnee Sherman
Mississippi Rural Physician Scholarship Program
Khaoula Kamal
Student, Mississippi State University
Mississippi Rural Health Association 