David McLain, MD, FACP has been elected to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) for his contributions to the medical industry. Established in 1518, RCP is the oldest medical college in England and has a fellowship community of more than 18,000 medical leaders worldwide.

McLain is the Symposium Director of the second largest annual rheumatology meeting in the U.S., the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East in Destin, FL, and West in San Diego, CA. He is also the Executive Director of the Alabama Society for Rheumatic Diseases.

McLain received his medical degree with honors from Tulane Medical School. He was a medical resident, Rheumatology fellow, and an NIAID trainee in Immunogenetics at Barnes Hospital and Washington University in St Louis, and joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine before moving to Birmingham where he currently resides as the owner of McLain Medical Associates.