Sandra Adamson Fryhofer

Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, a board-certified physician of internal medicine, was elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees in June 2018 and became chair in June 2022. A graduate of Emory University School of Medicine, where she is now an adjunct clinical associate professor of medicine, Dr. Fryhofer maintains a full-time general internal medicine practice in Atlanta.

As a member of the AMA House of Delegates since 1999, Dr. Fryhofer has been active in the AMA for almost two decades. In June 2021, she was elected chair-elect of the AMA Board of Trustees after completing her term as secretary. Dr. Fryhofer was also twice elected to the AMA Council on Science and Public Health and served as its chair from 2012–2013. She served as the council’s representative to the Commission to End Health Care Disparities and to the National Influenza Summit. For years, she has also served as the AMA liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, including on work groups for COVID-19, flu, zoster, HPV, cholera, pneumococcal, and Tdap vaccines and the adult schedule.