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

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Congratulations to Hank and to the FSMB Board of Directors. I am proud of my colleagues on the FSMB Board for making this bold selection of this eminently qualified person for the position. 
A DO has never served in this position in the 97 year history of FSMB. To date, there have been only 7 DOs (I was the 5th and served for 5 years) on the Board of Directors. There has been a long history of discrimination against DOs in the organization and by its partner NBME. (FSMB and NBME together own USMLE.) Hank has his work cut out for him, but I am certain he can handle it. This has the potential to be a very important landmark for the osteopathic profession. 

I look forward to the future. 
Susan Rose, DO 












----- 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 
To: "hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu" 

> 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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