Eddie Needham, MD
Board Certified Family Medicine, American Board of Family Medicine |
Professor of Medicine University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Winter Park, FL |
Clinical Associate Professor Florida State University College of Medicine, Winter Park, FL |
Dr. Needham has taught family medicine for 30 years of which 21 have been as a program director. He served as a physician in the US Army for seven years. He received the AFMRD Gold Award as a Program Director in 2017, the Full-Time Florida Family Physician Educator award in 2013, the GAFP Teacher of the Year in 2007 and the 1996 AAFP Parke-Davis Teacher award. He has been a regular speaker at the America Academy of Family Physicians national meeting (FMX) since 2010 and has spoken internationally at the Emirates Family Medicine Society’s annual conference in Dubai since 2018. It is his joy and passion to teach all students of medicine.
He loves his wife of 36 years, his five adult children and five grandchildren, the wonder and surprise of fishing, and outdoor adventures with friends.