Mo Med • May/June 2025 • MSMA Alliance President

Donna Glasford Corrado, RN, Mexico, Missouri, was installed for a second term as the 2025-2026 Missouri State Medical Alliance President on April 5, 2025, in Springfield, Missouri, during the MSMA’s Alliance Centennial year and its 101st Annual Meeting.

Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, and raised in Vandalia, Missouri, Donna graduated Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis. She married Joseph Corrado, MD, in 1976, and moved to New York, where he pursued residency in general and vascular surgery, and she worked on the medical-surgical floor of Albany Medical Center.

An opportunity arose to return to Missouri and fill a surgical gap in Mexico in 1982. With a family of six, Donna began volunteering in the community. She also began as president of the Audrain Medical Society (Auxiliary), chartering bylaws with the help of the MSMA Auxiliary leadership.

Donna continues to assist in her husband’s busy practice. When the Audrain Auxiliary dissolved, Donna continued with the MSMA Alliance, contributing time and talents on standing committees or an elected office, culminating in the Presidency from 2006-2007. Attending and participating in the American Medical Alliance through the years and appointed to various committees, Donna has never sought an office at the national level, preferring to stay local, and continuing to help with MSMA and Alliance.

Donna is a recipient of the Sandy Mitchell Alliance Member of the Year award. Also, as the executive producer of “Code Blue” Resuscitating Rural Surgery, a documentary, she traveled the country with her daughter, Meredith, in a motorhome, minding the children, while the film was being shot and edited, and finally released and celebrated in 2014.

Accompanying her husband, the 2018- 2019 President of MSMA, she traveled to most local and state meetings with him, carrying membership materials and promoting the Alliance for the state and the AMA.

The last few years have seen Donna working diligently to restore a fullservice healthcare facility to her home town of Mexico. Currently, she is on the Healthcare Leadership committee and President of the Board of the Audrain Regional Medical Center.

Presiding as the MSMA Alliance president is a joy and a challenge. She wants to encourage the Direct Members (those without a county Alliance) to continue at the state level and contribute to their counties using simple, ready-made projects (like “Stop the Bleed,” “Smoking Is NOT for Me,” “Physician Family Day,” or “National Doctor’s Day”) and giving recognition to the county medical societies.