David P. Millett, M.D. ’68, M.P.H., has been elected president of the Airlines Medical Directors Association (AMDA) for the term May 2015 to May 2016. He has been a member of AMDA since 1979, and has served as chair of the Membership Committee for the past 10 years. A native of New York City, he received his undergraduate degree from Denison University. After medical school, he spent two years as an assistant resident in surgery at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center. He graduated from the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine in April 1971. He received his M.P.H. from Florida International University in 1987.
Millett served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1970-1978, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps. From 1973-1975 he served as the assistant air attaché and post medical officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He was chief of aviation medicine at Shaw AFB from 1975-78, and in 1978 was designated a senior aviation medical examiner. That year he became director of flight medicine for Eastern Air Lines, serving in that position until 1987. After several years of private practice, he was chosen to be the FAA Regional Flight Surgeon for the Southern Region in 1990, a position he held for 16 years. He is currently executive vice-president of the Civil Aviation Medical Association.