Dr. Daniel P. Edney, an internist with Medical Associates of Vicksburg, has been appointed a member of the executive committee of the National Disaster Life Support Education Consortium, sponsored by the American Medical Association.

He will serve a two-year term on the 17-member committee.

Edney has led natural disaster response medical teams to: Haiti after this year’s earthquake, Lebanon after the Israeli-Lebanese War in 2006, Indonesia after a major tsunami in 2005 and the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Edney is a member of the AMA and the Mississippi State Medical Association.

He is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.