News Around the State

Hospital welcomes new doctors

In recent months, Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has added several new doctors to their active medical staff. New physicians include:

• Dr. Edwin Ozua, hospitalist
• Dr. James Major, general surgeon
• Dr. Fred Sandifer, orthopedic surgeon
• Dr. Jules Pean, cardiologist
• Dr. Tarence Wade, emergency medicine

The additional physicians are an important part of the hospital's ongoing quest to become a regional tertiary center, providing services to all of northwest Mississippi.

Sandifer joins NWRMC

Dr. Fred Sandifer, an orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. James Major, a general surgeon, have joined the active medical staff of Northwest Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale.

Sandifer practiced in Greenwood for over 20 years, but some of the doctors in his practice were retiring and the practice was splitting up. Sandifer chose to move to Clarksale, where he will open a new practice and recruit new othopedists for the area. Joining Sandifer is orthopedic technician and office manager Andy Perry, who traveled with him from Greenwood.

Walker re-elected chair of college board

George Walker, a member of the Board of Trustees of Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale, was recently re-elected chair of the State Board for Community and Junior Colleges for the ninth consecutive year. The founder of Delta Wire Corporation in Clarksdale and currently president of W-W-W Corporation in Clarksdale, Walker is also a member of the Executive Board for the Enterprise Corporation of the Mississippi Delta and the Mississippi Business Hall of Fame.