[Hlthpol] Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., New President and CEO of Federation of State Medical Boards

Thu Oct 1 07:48:23 EDT 2009

Congrats to you Dr. Chaudhry!

Steve Blake, DO

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Hello Fellows and List Serve Members:  Congratulations to Hank Chaudhry,
D.O., M.S., Health Policy Fellowship and Training in Policy Studies
(TIPS) Faculty, upon his appointment as President and CEO of the
Federation of State Medical Boards.  

For Immediate Release: September 24, 2009       

Contact: Drew Carlson, (817) 868-4043; 

dcarlson at fsmb.org <mailto:dcarlson at fsmb.org> ; www.fsmb.org
<http://www.fsmb.org> 

Federation of State Medical Boards Names

Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., President and CEO

Leading New York health administrator and medical educator tapped to 

lead organization representing nation's state medical boards

DALLAS - The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) announced today
that Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., M.S., FACP, FACOI, has been named the
organization's new President and Chief Executive Officer. The FSMB is a
national not-for-profit organization representing the 70 state medical
boards of the United States. Dr. Chaudhry will assume leadership of the
FSMB in October. 

"We are very fortunate to have someone of Dr. Chaudhry's exceptional
talents, experience and passion for public protection to lead our
organization," said Martin Crane, M.D., Chair of the FSMB Board of
Directors. "He brings an outstanding combination of leadership, health
policy and administrative skills to the FSMB as we move forward in
supporting state medical boards in fulfilling their mission of public
protection."

Dr. Chaudhry, 43, currently is Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer
of the Suffolk County, N.Y., Department of Health Services, the ninth
largest health department in the United States, serving more than 1.5
million residents in an area encompassing 912 square miles. He also is a
Clinical Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook
University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Clinical Associate
Professor of Medicine at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of
New York Institute of Technology.

Health Commissioner

As Suffolk County's Health Commissioner since 2007, Dr. Chaudhry directs
a broad array of services providing high-quality, accessible health care
to the county's residents. Overseeing 1,500 employees and a budget of
$400 million, Dr. Chaudhry directs the county's patient care services,
environmental quality, preventive medicine, public health, children with
special needs programs, emergency medical services, community mental
hygiene, the medical examiners office, an office of minority health, and
a 264-bed skilled nursing facility. The Division of Patient Care
Services includes 10 community health centers, with seven of the health
centers managed in partnership with area hospitals, including Stony
Brook University Medical Center, the county's only Level 1 Trauma
Center. 

During his tenure as Commissioner, Dr. Chaudhry created a new Division
of Preventive Medicine to raise public awareness of preventable diseases
and promote healthier lifestyles. When the Influenza A virus subtype
H1N1 flu pandemic broke out in Suffolk County in April 2009, Dr.
Chaudhry was praised for taking a proactive public health approach to
the new virus, closing schools as needed and providing hundreds of
local, state and federal health officials with daily public health
guidance via advanced communication technologies such as Blackberry and
Twitter. New York's Newsday commended Dr. Chaudhry for "intently but
calmly... (steering) the public on a better middle course between apathy
and alarm."

Medical Educator

Dr. Chaudhry currently is a Clinical Associate Professor of Preventive
Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and an Adjunct
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the New York College of
Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). From
2001 to 2007, he served as the full-time Chairman of the Department of
Medicine at NYIT, where he also served from 2003-2005 as Assistant Dean
for Pre-Clinical Education, supervising all undergraduate medical
education delivered to first and second year medical students, and from
2005-2007 as the Assistant Dean for Health Policy. Additionally, Dr.
Chaudhry served as Director of Medical Education at Long Beach Medical
Center, a 202-bed community teaching hospital in Long Beach, N.Y., from
1996 to 2001 after his medical residency.

>From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Chaudhry served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves as
a physician and medical educator, rising to the rank of Major and
serving as a Flight Surgeon with the 732nd Airlift Squadron and as the
Medical Operations Flight Commander for the 514th Aeromedical Staging
Squadron of the 514th Air Mobility Wing.

Dr. Chaudhry is the principal author of Fundamentals of Clinical
Medicine (4th edition, published in 2004), a textbook designed primarily
for medical students. He has led, or participated in, clinical research
in several areas of public health, preventive medicine, medical
education, and infectious diseases, including studies on ways to improve
vaccine utilization in acute care settings, the development of a
multimedia online orientation for the fourth-year medicine clerkship, a
comprehensive review of drug-induced aseptic meningitis, a review of
streptococcal paratracheal abscesses, and a consensus statement on
abdominal girth and cardiometabolic risk. 

Health Policy Leader

Dr. Chaudhry has been active in helping craft effective health policy on
the state and national level for many years. He has served as the
principal author of resolutions adopted by the American Medical
Association, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the New York
State Chapter of the American Society of Internal Medicine and the New
York Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Policy issues
addressed by Dr. Chaudhry include the promotion of warning labels on
herbal supplements, support for state funding of cancer prevalence
mapping in New York, physician education about prevailing screening
guidelines, medical resident duty hours and supervision, managed care
principles and practices, physician workforce predictions, and the
training of physicians in women's health. 

As Chair of the Health and Public Policy Committee of the New York
Chapter of the American College of Physicians, a state chapter with
12,000 members, he served in 2006 as the lead author of a white paper on
the future of primary care medicine in New York state. Citing a need to
promote careers in primary care medicine, the report found that in 45 of
the 62 counties in New York, primary care physicians represented less
than 50 percent of the physician population and, in a ratio similar to
that found in developing countries, seven counties had more than 2,000
patients per single primary care provider. 

Dr. Chaudhry is the 2008-2009 President of the American College of
Osteopathic Internists and served as the 2007-2009 President of the
Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators. He is the
recipient of a Laureate Award from the American College of Physicians
and has been inducted into the American Osteopathic Association's Mentor
Hall of Fame.

Education and Board Certification

Dr. Chaudhry received a Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's
degree in Anatomy from New York University, and a Doctor of Osteopathic
Medicine degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of New
York Institute of Technology in 1991. He completed an osteopathic
rotating internship at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City and a
three-year residency in Internal Medicine at Winthrop University
Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., where he served an additional year as Chief
Medical Resident. In 2001, Dr. Chaudhry received a master's degree in
Health Care Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a
diplomate in Internal Medicine, American Osteopathic Board of Internal
Medicine, a diplomate of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical
Examiners, and he was a diplomate in Internal Medicine, American Board
of Internal Medicine from 1996-2006. 

Nancy Cooper, Coordinator
Health Policy Fellowship
307 Grosvenor Hall
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Athens, OH  45701
740 593-2017 phone
740 593-1730 fax
coopern at ohio.edu

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