Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, MACP, FRCP, is a board-certified doctor of internal medicine in Atlanta and adjunct clinical associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is on staff at Piedmont Hospital.
Fryhofer was the 2000-2001 president of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty society. She was only the second woman to be elected president and was the youngest president in the college’s 85-year history. During her tenure on the ACP Board of Regents, she chaired the Committee on Women’s Health and was an active member of the Education Committee. She was a national spokesperson for the Doctors for Adults Public Education Campaign. She is a member of the ACP delegation to the American Medical Association and was the 2012-2013 chair of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health. She is a liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and also serves on ACIP working groups for HPV vaccine, influenza vaccine, and pneumococcal vaccine, and zoster vaccine.