William H. Mahood, M.D., a gastroenterologist from Flourtown, Pennsylvania was elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees in June 1996.  Active in organized medicine for more than two decades, Dr. Mahood is recognized for his astute analysis of medical issues and his passion for representing the practicing physician’s viewpoint.

     Before his election to the AMA Board of Trustees, Dr. Mahood served on the AMA’s Council on Medical Service.  He was first elected to the Council in 1991 and was selected vice chair of the Council in 1995.  He served on the Council’s managed care subcommittee and on its electronic data interchange subcommittee.  He served on and chaired the Council’s Subcommittee on Finance.  He represented the Council on Medical Service on a joint committee with the Council on Legislation to address case management and telephone consultation.  He also represented the Council on the AMA’s Task Force on Credentialing and Privileges. 

     Dr. Mahood has been involved with both his state and county medical societies and with his specialty societies for the past 20 years.  Most recently he has served on the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s Committee on Health Care Reform and Access.  He chaired the Society’s Council of Medical Economics.  He has served on the governmental relations and national affairs committees of two national gastrointestinal societies and has been on the governing board of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.  He was president of the Pennsylvania Society of Gastroenterology and of the Montgomery County Medical Society.  As a member of his county society board of directors, he helped in the establishment of a county Department of Health and later was appointed co-chair of a county task force on health.

     Dr. Mahood was born in Charleston, West Virginia.  He received his bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.  He completed his internship and a two-year medical residency at the Jefferson Medical College Hospital.  He also completed a one-year residency in gastroenterology at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.  Following his residency, he spent two years in the Internal Medicine Division at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

     Dr. Mahood enjoys studying and discussing the many abstract concepts involved in today’s practice of medicine.  He is especially known by his peers as being the rare individual who can frame those concepts within his wealth of experience and then communicate those ideas to others in easily understood terms.  He enjoys representing medicine and is dedicated to uniting the physician community so that by working together it can reverse the forces that interfere with good patient care.

     Dr. Mahood is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the American Society of Internal Medicine.  He was appointed as an AMA commissioner to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) in 1999 and serves as a member of its Accreditation Committee.  Dr. Mahood is a past president of the Digestive Disease National Coalition, based in Washington, D.C.  His group practice is limited to gastroenterology and is located in Montgomery County, near Philadelphia.

     Dr. Mahood, his wife Perry Kendall, and their daughter Tessa reside in Flourtown, Pennsylvania.