Daniel Edney, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Mississippi State Department of Health
Daniel Edney, MD – Psychiatrist, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Medical School: University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS, 1988
Residency: University of Virginia Health Sciences Centers, 1991
BIO: Dr. Edney is a board-certified General Internist with subspecialty board certification in Addiction Medicine. He is a graduate of both William Carey University and the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia. He then practiced primary care General Internal Medicine in Vicksburg since 1991 and is proud to call Vicksburg his home.
Becoming interested in the national opioid crisis and working with patients with complications of chronic opioid use since 2013, he actively worked in the field of addiction medicine as a teacher and clinician. He has served as the Addiction Medicine specialist for inpatient residential facilities, outpatient programs as well as his local drug court.
He is a former president of the Mississippi State Medical Assoc., a Fellow and Laureate of the Mississippi Chapter of American College of physicians, and Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. In 2021 he was recruited to the Health Department by Dr. Thomas Dobbs to serve as the first Chief Medical Officer and is now proud to be serving as the new State Health Officer for the Mississippi State Department of Health.
