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The Lost Coast Outpost congratulates Dr. Luther Cobb, longtime local medical leader, on his ascension to president-elect of the California Medical Association!

Cobb started serving in that post last week. Come this time next year, he will take over the reins as the association’s president.

It is further reminder that Humboldt County, for all its boondockery, contains exceptional people, and the local medical community has more than its fair share — Cobb, Herrmann Spetzler, Wendy Ring, Alan Glaseroff, many others.

Press release from the Humboldt-Del Norte Medical Society:

LOCAL PHYSICIAN NAMED PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION!

The California Medical Association House of Delegates, CMA’s member policy making body, has named Luther Cobb, M.D., as the association’s next president-elect. He officially took office at the close of the annual meeting, October 13, 2013. CMA is the professional organization representing physicians (M.D./D.O.’s) in the State of California. The Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society is the local component of the California Medical Association, representing 38,000 members statewide.

Previously serving for the past three years as the Speaker of the CMA House, Dr. Cobb is a board-certified, self-employed physician practicing in general and thoracic surgery in Arcata and Eureka, sharing his practice with his wife, M. Ellen Mahoney, M.D.

In addition to his involvement in organized medicine, Dr. Cobb has served as chief of staff of the Mad River Community Hospital since December 2011. Dr. Cobb is an active member of the medical staffs of Mad River Community Hospital and St. Joseph Hospitals and is on courtesy staff at Redwood Memorial Hospital. He currently serves on the Quality Review Committee at St. Joseph Hospital. He had also previously served as Mad River Community Hospital’s chief of staff from 2000 to 2002 and Vice-Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2011.

Previously, Dr. Cobb served as attending surgeon, director of trauma services and director of the vascular surgery clinic at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, in San Jose, as well as clinical associate professor of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and the chairman of the surgery department at Mad River Community Hospital.

Dr. Cobb has been an active member of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society since arriving in 1997. Representing and advocating on behalf of his colleagues in several capacities, he served as President of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society from 2004 to 2006 and continues to be actively involved in leadership at the local level.

A graduate of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Cobb is a current member of the school’s alumni association, as well as the American Society of Breast Disease, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the Sigma XI Scientific Research Society and the Pacific Coast Surgical Association.

Dr. Cobb will serve as president elect for one year, and will be installed as president during next year’s CMA House of Delegates, in October 2014.

In addition to Dr. Cobb’s election, William Carlson, M.D. has been elected as Vice-Chair of the District X Delegation.