J. Roy Rowland, M.D. of Laurens County has been appointed by Gov. Sonny Perdue to join the Board of Directors of MCG Health, Inc. for a three-year term.

Dr. Rowland served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years and in the Georgia House of Representatives for six years. An honor graduate of the Medical College of Georgia, he practiced family medicine in Dublin, Ga. for 28 years. He currently is Director of Utilization Management at the Middle Georgia Community Mental Health Center.

Dr. Rowland succeeds board member Dr. Marilyn Carter, Augusta Associates of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

MCG Health System is composed of three separate organizations -- MCG Health, Inc. and the clinical services offered by the faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the members of the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation. The physicians of MCG Health System are community physicians, faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia, or employees of the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation, not employees of MCG Health, Inc. MCG Health, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation operating the MCG Medical Center, MCG Children’s Medical Center, the MCG Sports Medicine Center, MCG Ambulatory Care Center, the Georgia Radiation Therapy Center and related clinical facilities and services. MCG Health, Inc. was formed to support the research and education mission of the Medical College of Georgia and to build the economic growth of the CSRA, the state of Georgia and the Southeast by providing an environment for faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation and community physicians to deliver the highest level of primary and specialty health care. For more information, please visit w ww.MCGHealth.org.