Ricardo Azziz, MD, MPH, MBA
President, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia

Dr. Azziz, a physician-scientist-executive with over 20 years of leadership experience in Biomedical Research, Medical Education, and Health Care, is President of the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) in Augusta, GA. MCG is the sole state-supported health sciences university in Georgia, and includes five Schools, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Allied Health, and Graduate Studies, and a clinical enterprise including faculty practices, a 478 bed general hospital, a 150 bed Children's Medical Center, and various clinics throughout the region. The MCG School of Medicine is the 13th-oldest continuously operating medical school in the United States and the third-oldest in the Southeast. Overseeing a nearly one billion dollar operating budget, Dr. Azziz also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of MCG Health, Inc. (MCGHI) overseeing the operations of the MCG hospitals and clinics, and CEO and Chair of the Board of Directors of MCG Health System, Inc., responsible for the coordination and alignment of the clinical enterprise.

Prior to his being named President of MCG, Dr Azziz was the Helping Hand of Los Angeles Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Ob/Gyn), serving as Chair of Dept. of Ob/Gyn, and Director of the Center for Androgen Related Research & Discovery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC), and Professor & Vice-Chair of the Dept. of Ob/Gyn, Professor, Dept. of Medicine, and Assistant Dean for Clinical and Translational Sciences, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr. Azziz is an internationally recognized clinical translational researcher, developing over the past 20 years an important program in androgen excess disorders research, funded by the NIH since 1988. In recognition, he was awarded the Society for Gynecological Investigation 2000 President's Achievement Award. He has served in a number of advisory capacities for the NIH, served as Chair of the U.S. FDA, Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, and was appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger to the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee overseeing the activities of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.