Dr. Ed Masters has been elected to the speaker of the house for the Missouri State Medical Association.
Masters was elected during the association's annual meeting, held at St. Louis recently.
Masters, also an officer of the local Cape Girardeau County Area Medical Society, has offices at Regional Primary Care, Inc., 69 Doctors Park in Cape Girardeau.
Previous Cape Girardeau physicians who have held statewide office include Dr. Mel Kasten, president in 1994, and Dr. Ed Burford, speaker of the house in the mid-1970s.
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