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Daniel Edney is a board-certified general Internist with subspecialty board certification in Addiction Medicine. He is a summa cum laude graduate of William Carey University and the University of Mississippi School of Medicine Class of 1988. He then completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia. He has practiced general primary care Internal Medicine since 1991 becoming interested in the national opioid crisis and working with patients with complications of chronic opioid use since 2013 and working in the field of addiction as a teacher and clinician. He is a former president of the Mississippi State Medical Association, a Fellow and Laureate of the Mississippi Chapter of American College of physicians, and is currently serving as a board member on the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure and recently joined the Mississippi State Department of Health as the agency’s Chief Medical Officer.
He currently serves as the Addiction Medicine specialist for Haven House Communicare-Oxford, Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center-Oxford, Warren- Yazoo Mental Health CDU-Vicksburg, RiverRegion CDU- Vicksburg, and has a private practice at Medical Associates of Vicksburg.
He is the husband of 38 years to Lori, has 3 adult children and two wonderful grandsons.
