Edward L. Langston, MD
Edward L. Langston, MD, a family physician in private practice in Lafayette, Ind., has been a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT) since June 2003, and served as its chair for 2007–2008. He has served in the AMA House of Delegates since 1987, as alternate delegate and then delegate from Indiana. Most recently, he served as alternate delegate and delegate of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Also within the AMA, he has been a member and chair of the Specialty and Service Society, and a member of the Council on Medical Education (1997–2003).
Dr. Langston was chair of the Commission on Legislation and a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Medical Association before moving to the Texas Medical Center in Houston, where he was a family practice program director and associate professor (1993–1996). In 1996 Dr. Langston moved to Illinois to serve as vice president of medical affairs and medical education for the Trinity Regional Health System in Rock Island. Dr. Langston also served on the state Medicaid Prescription Drug Advisory Committee until returning to Indiana in 2000.
Dr. Langston has been actively involved in family medicine—as president of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians, as a member of the AAFP board of directors (1991–1993) and as vice president of the AAFP (1994). He was also chair of the AAFP delegation to the AMA (1999–2002).
Dr. Langston has also served as a member of the board of trustees of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia (1995–2000). Currently he is an affiliate assistant professor in the Purdue School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
After moving to Lafayette in 2000, Dr. Langston served as education coordinator for the Lafayette Medical Education Foundation (2001–2007). He serves as part-time faculty at the Community Hospital Family Practice residency program, where he was previously director (1988–1992). In addition, he has served on the board of directors of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (1998–2003). Since January 2005, he has served on the board of commissioners of the Joint Commission.
Dr. Langston was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha while earning his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed a family practice residency program at St. Mary’s Graduate Medical Center in Evansville, Ind., and is board-certified in family medicine. He earned his BS degree with highest distinction in pharmacy from Purdue University.
Dr. Langston and his wife, Linda, have two daughters, three granddaughters and two grandsons.
2009–2010
