Steven J. Stack, MD
Steven J. Stack, MD, is an emergency physician residing in Lexington, Ky. In June 2006 he was elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT). Dr. Stack, board-certified in emergency medicine, practices at St. Joseph Hospital East where he is chair and medical director of the department, overseeing a community emergency department with 36,000 annual patient visits. Additionally, he is a staff physician practicing emergency medicine at a number of rural eastern and central Kentucky hospitals. Dr. Stack is the first emergency medicine board-certified physician to serve on the AMA-BOT.
For more than a decade, Dr. Stack has demonstrated his commitment to his profession through his leadership in organized medicine. Within the AMA, Dr. Stack has served as speaker of the Medical Student Section, vice chair of the Resident and Fellow Section, AMA House of Delegates (HOD) alternate delegate representing the Young Physician Section, and AMA-HOD delegate representing emergency medicine. He has also served on the governing boards of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee, Tennessee College of Emergency Physicians and Ohio State Medical Association. During his AMA-BOT tenure he has served as chair of both the Compensation Committee and the Awards and Nominations Committee. Currently, he is serving in his third year as chair of the AMA Health Information Technology Advisory Group.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Dr. Stack graduated magna cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where he was a Henry Bean Scholar for classical studies. He then returned to Ohio, where he completed his medical school and emergency medicine residency training at The Ohio State University before moving to Memphis, Tenn., to begin his clinical practice. During his five years in Memphis, Dr. Stack practiced at Baptist Memorial Hospital, a 700-bed tertiary care community medical center, where he subsequently served as medical director for its emergency department, which has 53,000 annual patient visits. In June 2006 Dr. Stack and his family relocated to Lexington, Ky., to be closer to their families in Ohio.
Dr. Stack is married and is the proud father of a 5-year-old daughter. His wife, Tracie, is a practicing board-certified pediatric allergist and fellow AMA member. In his leisure time, Dr. Stack enjoys the study of classical Greek and Roman history, the study of early U.S. history, and traveling with his wife and daughter.
2009–2010
