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NEW YORK CITY, April 14 ???Dr. Alan R. Fleischman, Senior Vice President at The New York Academy of Medicine, will assume a senior position at the National Institutes of Health as of June 14 as the ethics advisor to The National Children???s Study. This longitudinal federal study is expected to begin in 2005 and will follow 100,000 U.S. children for 20 years to examine how environmental influences affect their health and development.
Dr. Fleischman has since 1994 been the Senior Vice President for Medical and Academic Affairs at the Academy. He plans to continue working at the Academy one day per week in an advisory role and will continue to be responsible for the Institutional Review Board and for ensuring Academy staff is in compliance with federal research, misconduct and integrity issues. Under his guidance, Academy programs have expanded in size and scope, said Academy President Jeremiah A. Barondess. In addition, he has overseen ongoing programs and numerous endowed and special lectures and fellowships.
???This is a magnificent organization with tremendous potential,??? Dr. Fleischman said of the Academy. ???I???ve learned a lot here, and we???ve contributed to making Urban Health as a field of research a very serious and important area. What???s most important to me is that I don???t have to leave the Academy completely.???
As an ethicist concerned with human research subjects in the National Children???s Study, Dr. Fleischman will guide the government and researchers through the maze of thorny ethical issues sure to arise as children are followed from prenatal development through to birth, childhood and into adulthood. He will be part of the Study staff and will be in charge of ensuring that institutional review boards perform properly at the 70-plus universities expected to recruit subjects.
Dr. Fleischman has been involved with the planning of the study since 2001. He was appointed to his new position by Dr. Duane Alexander, Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which is leading the study and is an arm of the National Institutes of Health.
Posted on April 14, 2004
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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