<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.<br>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. <br><br>I look forward to the future. <br>Susan Rose, DO<br><br><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><br><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><hr id="stopSpelling" width="100%" align="center" size="2">
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "Cooper, Nancy" <br>
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:05 pm<br>
Subject: [Hlthpol] Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., New President and CEO of
Federation of State Medical Boards<br>
To: "hlthpol@listserv.ohio.edu" <br>
<br>
> Hello Fellows and List Serve Members: Congratulations to Hank <br>
> Chaudhry, D.O., M.S., Health Policy Fellowship and Training in <br>
> Policy Studies (TIPS) Faculty, upon his appointment as President <br>
> and CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> For Immediate Release: September 24, 2009<br>
> <br>
> Contact: Drew Carlson, (817) 868-4043;<br>
> dcarlson@fsmb.org; <br>
> www.fsmb.org<br>
> <br>
> Federation of State Medical Boards Names<br>
> Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., President and CEO<br>
> <br>
> Leading New York health administrator and medical educator <br>
> tapped to<br>
> lead organization representing nation's state medical boards<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> DALLAS - The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) announced <br>
> today that Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., M.S., FACP, FACOI, has <br>
> been named the organization's new President and Chief Executive <br>
> Officer. The FSMB is a national not-for-profit organization <br>
> representing the 70 state medical boards of the United States. <br>
> Dr. Chaudhry will assume leadership of the FSMB in October.<br>
> <br>
> "We are very fortunate to have someone of Dr. Chaudhry's <br>
> exceptional talents, experience and passion for public <br>
> protection to lead our organization," said Martin Crane, M.D., <br>
> Chair of the FSMB Board of Directors. "He brings an outstanding <br>
> combination of leadership, health policy and administrative <br>
> skills to the FSMB as we move forward in supporting state <br>
> medical boards in fulfilling their mission of public protection."<br>
> <br>
> Dr. Chaudhry, 43, currently is Commissioner and Chief Executive <br>
> Officer of the Suffolk County, N.Y., Department of Health <br>
> Services, the ninth largest health department in the United <br>
> States, serving more than 1.5 million residents in an area <br>
> encompassing 912 square miles. He also is a Clinical Associate <br>
> Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University <br>
> School of Medicine and an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor <br>
> of Medicine at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of <br>
> New York Institute of Technology.<br>
> <br>
> Health Commissioner<br>
> As Suffolk County's Health Commissioner since 2007, Dr. Chaudhry <br>
> directs a broad array of services providing high-quality, <br>
> accessible health care to the county's residents. Overseeing <br>
> 1,500 employees and a budget of $400 million, Dr. Chaudhry <br>
> directs the county's patient care services, environmental <br>
> quality, preventive medicine, public health, children with <br>
> special needs programs, emergency medical services, community <br>
> mental hygiene, the medical examiners office, an office of <br>
> minority health, and a 264-bed skilled nursing facility. The <br>
> Division of Patient Care Services includes 10 community health <br>
> centers, with seven of the health centers managed in partnership <br>
> with area hospitals, including Stony Brook University Medical <br>
> Center, the county's only Level 1 Trauma Center.<br>
> <br>
> During his tenure as Commissioner, Dr. Chaudhry created a new <br>
> Division of Preventive Medicine to raise public awareness of <br>
> preventable diseases and promote healthier lifestyles. When the <br>
> Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 flu pandemic broke out in Suffolk <br>
> County in April 2009, Dr. Chaudhry was praised for taking a <br>
> proactive public health approach to the new virus, closing <br>
> schools as needed and providing hundreds of local, state and <br>
> federal health officials with daily public health guidance via <br>
> advanced communication technologies such as Blackberry and <br>
> Twitter. New York's Newsday commended Dr. Chaudhry for "intently <br>
> but calmly... (steering) the public on a better middle course <br>
> between apathy and alarm."<br>
> <br>
> Medical Educator<br>
> Dr. Chaudhry currently is a Clinical Associate Professor of <br>
> Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine <br>
> and an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the <br>
> New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute <br>
> of Technology (NYIT). From 2001 to 2007, he served as the full-<br>
> time Chairman of the Department of Medicine at NYIT, where he <br>
> also served from 2003-2005 as Assistant Dean for Pre-Clinical <br>
> Education, supervising all undergraduate medical education <br>
> delivered to first and second year medical students, and from <br>
> 2005-2007 as the Assistant Dean for Health Policy. Additionally, <br>
> Dr. Chaudhry served as Director of Medical Education at Long <br>
> Beach Medical Center, a 202-bed community teaching hospital in <br>
> Long Beach, N.Y., from 1996 to 2001 after his medical residency.<br>
> <br>
> >From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Chaudhry served in the U.S. Air Force <br>
> Reserves as a physician and medical educator, rising to the rank <br>
> of Major and serving as a Flight Surgeon with the 732nd Airlift <br>
> Squadron and as the Medical Operations Flight Commander for the <br>
> 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron of the 514th Air Mobility Wing.<br>
> <br>
> Dr. Chaudhry is the principal author of Fundamentals of Clinical <br>
> Medicine (4th edition, published in 2004), a textbook designed <br>
> primarily for medical students. He has led, or participated in, <br>
> clinical research in several areas of public health, preventive <br>
> medicine, medical education, and infectious diseases, including <br>
> studies on ways to improve vaccine utilization in acute care <br>
> settings, the development of a multimedia online orientation for <br>
> the fourth-year medicine clerkship, a comprehensive review of <br>
> drug-induced aseptic meningitis, a review of streptococcal <br>
> paratracheal abscesses, and a consensus statement on abdominal <br>
> girth and cardiometabolic risk.<br>
> <br>
> Health Policy Leader<br>
> Dr. Chaudhry has been active in helping craft effective health <br>
> policy on the state and national level for many years. He has <br>
> served as the principal author of resolutions adopted by the <br>
> American Medical Association, the Medical Society of the State <br>
> of New York, the New York State Chapter of the American Society <br>
> of Internal Medicine and the New York Chapter of the American <br>
> College of Physicians. Policy issues addressed by Dr. Chaudhry <br>
> include the promotion of warning labels on herbal supplements, <br>
> support for state funding of cancer prevalence mapping in New <br>
> York, physician education about prevailing screening guidelines, <br>
> medical resident duty hours and supervision, managed care <br>
> principles and practices, physician workforce predictions, and <br>
> the training of physicians in women's health.<br>
> <br>
> As Chair of the Health and Public Policy Committee of the New <br>
> York Chapter of the American College of Physicians, a state <br>
> chapter with 12,000 members, he served in 2006 as the lead <br>
> author of a white paper on the future of primary care medicine <br>
> in New York state. Citing a need to promote careers in primary <br>
> care medicine, the report found that in 45 of the 62 counties in <br>
> New York, primary care physicians represented less than 50 <br>
> percent of the physician population and, in a ratio similar to <br>
> that found in developing countries, seven counties had more than <br>
> 2,000 patients per single primary care provider.<br>
> <br>
> Dr. Chaudhry is the 2008-2009 President of the American College <br>
> of Osteopathic Internists and served as the 2007-2009 President <br>
> of the Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical <br>
> Educators. He is the recipient of a Laureate Award from the <br>
> American College of Physicians and has been inducted into the <br>
> American Osteopathic Association's Mentor Hall of Fame.<br>
> <br>
> Education and Board Certification<br>
> Dr. Chaudhry received a Bachelor's degree in Biology and a <br>
> Master's degree in Anatomy from New York University, and a <br>
> Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the New York College <br>
> of Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute of Technology in <br>
> 1991. He completed an osteopathic rotating internship at St. <br>
> Barnabas Hospital in New York City and a three-year residency in <br>
> Internal Medicine at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, <br>
> N.Y., where he served an additional year as Chief Medical <br>
> Resident. In 2001, Dr. Chaudhry received a master's degree in <br>
> Health Care Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. <br>
> He is a diplomate in Internal Medicine, American Osteopathic <br>
> Board of Internal Medicine, a diplomate of the National Board of <br>
> Osteopathic Medical Examiners, and he was a diplomate in <br>
> Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine from 1996-2006.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Nancy Cooper, Coordinator<br>
> Health Policy Fellowship<br>
> 307 Grosvenor Hall<br>
> Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine<br>
> Athens, OH 45701<br>
> 740 593-2017 phone<br>
> 740 593-1730 fax<br>
> coopern@ohio.edu<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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