United Bankshares, Inc. Appoints Patrice A. Harris to Board of Directors
September 18, 2020 at 07:50 am EDT
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United Bankshares, Inc. (“United”) has appointed Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, FAPA, to its board of directors, effective October 1, 2020. Dr. Harris is a practicing psychiatrist trained in child/adolescent and forensic psychiatry and the immediate past president of the American Medical Association (AMA). Becoming the 174th AMA President in June 2019, Dr. Harris was the first African American woman to hold that position within the organization. She has served on the AMA Board of Trustees since 2011 and is the chair of the AMA Opioid Task Force. Apart from the AMA, she has also held leadership positions with the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the Medical Association of Georgia, The Big Cities Health Coalition, and the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association. She was also the founding president of the Georgia Psychiatry Political Action Committee.
United Bankshares, Inc. is a financial holding company. The Company's segments include community banking and mortgage banking. The community banking segment includes both commercial and consumer lending and provides customers with such products as commercial loans, real estate loans, business financing and consumer loans. In addition, this segment provides customers with several choices of deposit products including demand deposit accounts, savings accounts and certificates of deposit as well as investment and financial advisory services to businesses and individuals, including financial planning, retirement/estate planning, and investment management. The mortgage banking segment engages primarily in the origination and acquisition of residential mortgages for sale into the secondary market though Unitedâs mortgage banking subsidiaries, George Mason and Crescent. The Company has one banking subsidiary doing business under the name of United Bank. It also owns nonbank subsidiaries.