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

[Pence, Lorenzo]

Congratulations to Nancy and Dr. Chaudhry

Lorenzo Pence, D.O.
Health Policy Class 1997

From: Scott Welle [mailto:wellescott at hotmail.com]
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Congratulations to you both Nancy and Dr Chaudhry!

Scott Welle, DO & Jennifer Howell-Welle, DO
TIPS Class 2008
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:13:50 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Hlthpol] Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., New President and CEO of Federation of State Medical Boards
Im am so proud of both of you! Congratulations...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cooper, Nancy"
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:05 pm
Subject: [Hlthpol] Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., New President and CEO of Federation of State Medical Boards
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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;
> 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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