Published on: March 23, 2021 at 6:00 PM

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By Lenore Vickrey
Alabama Living

Dr. Don Williamson has been the president/CEO of the Alabama Hospital Association since November 2015. Previously, he was well known to Alabamians for his work in the Alabama Department of Public Health for 29 years, serving as state health officer and director of the department for 23 years.

A native of rural Mississippi, he received his medical degree from the University of Mississippi and completed training in internal medicine at the University of Virginia. Since the pandemic began, he and his staff have been working remotely, but he continues to be a familiar face on newscasts advocating on behalf of Alabama’s 114 hospitals and 300,000 health care workers.

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