HJNO Mar/Apr 2020

HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS I  MAR / APR 2020 29 A native of Tylertown, Mississippi, Dr. Conerly graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1985. He completed a general surgery residency at Roanoke Memorial Hospital/University of Virginia School of Medicine. In 2016, he earned a Master of Business Administration from Louisiana State University Shreveport. Dr. Conerly practiced surgery in Alexandria, Louisiana, from 1990 to 2018. He was a founding member of Mid Louisiana Surgical Specialists in 2003, where he was a surgeon and president until 2018. As a surgical specialist, Dr. Conerly is certified by the American Board of Surgery, and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Conerly served on various committees of the medical staff at CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, and held the positions of president of the medical staff, and member of the board of directors for the hospital. He also served as president of the Rapides Parish Medical Society. As a long-standing member of LAMMICO leadership, Dr. Conerly has served as senior vice-president of underwriting, and a member of the company’s marketing, joint risk assessment, governance, and audit committees over the last 23 years. He was elected chairman of the board of directors in 2011, after having served on the board since 1999. Dr. Conerly assumed the position of president and CEO of LAMMICO on March 1, 2019. He is currently a member of the board of directors, and of the finance and audit committee for the MPL Association, an international organization of providers of Medical Professional Liability insurance, as well as the board of directors of the American Heart Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.