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NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 21 ???The New York Academy of Medicine is pleased to announce the election of seven new trustees: Paula Allen-Meares, PhD, Christine K. Cassel, MD, Alvin Deutsch, Jr., Esq., Terry Fulmer, PhD, Mary Lake Polan, MD, PhD, Allan Rosenfield, MD, and Allen M. Spiegel, MD.
Dr. Allen-Meares is Dean, Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of the School of Social Work, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan. She serves as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board for the Academy’s Social Work Leadership Program. Prior to her position at the University of Michigan, she was the Dean and a Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include: improving the mental and physical health of poor children and adolescents of color, adolescent pregnancy, and the strengths of African-American parents and communities. Her theoretical model on school social work for at-risk youth has been translated into practice in South Africa, and principles of this model are used in South Korea, Australia, China and Europe. Dr. Allen-Meares serves on the editorial boards of nearly a dozen journals and publications, and serves on several national professional and scientific committees.
Dr. Cassel is the President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the ABIM Foundation. She previously served as the Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. She is a leading expert in geriatric medicine, medical ethics, and quality of care. Dr. Cassel serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Greenwall Foundation, is past president of the American Federation for Aging Research, is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director at the National Institutes of Health, and was co-chair for the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century. She also served on the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry from 1997-1998.
Mr. Deutsch was the co-founder of the law firm Deutsch Klagsbrun & Blansband, which for forty years established an expertise in intellectual property. In 2001 his firm merged with McLaughlin & Stern. Mr. Deutsch is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Copyright Society, a former Chair of the Legitimate Theatre Committee of the American Bar Association and serves as an adjunct professor of copyright in the music industry at Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. He is also general counsel and trustee of The Johnny Mercer Foundation, The Neighborhood Playhouse School and the Goodspeed Opera House. He has lectured on numerous topics at Ivy League schools as well as authored numerous articles. He was listed in “Who’s Who in American Lawyers” and was listed in 2005 and 2006 as “The Best Lawyer in the New York Area” by New York Magazine.
Dr. Fulmer is the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at the College of Dentistry at New York University. Her research focuses on acute care of the elderly and specifically, elderly abuse and neglect. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine and was the first nurse to serve as President of the Gerontological Society of America. She completed a Brookdale National Fellowship and is a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academies of Practice.
Dr. Polan currently holds an appointment as Visiting Professor at the Columbia University Medical Center. She has served as the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine and was named the Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor from 1990-2006 after she moved to Stanford from Yale University. Dr. Polan specializes in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. She also holds an interest in international public health, and has initiated and maintained a surgical project in Eritrea (in northeast Africa) to repair fistulas in women who have traumatic childbirth. She has published more than 130 articles, chapters and books for research in her field and is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a member of the the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, among other affliliations.
Dr. Rosenfield is the Dean of the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. His expertise is women’s health issues including: HIV/AIDS and contraception, international health (particularly maternal and child health and human rights), healthcare delivery systems, adolescent pregnancy, minority health concerns and healthcare for the poor and disadvantaged. He serves on the New York State Department of Health AIDS Advisory Council, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR) Public Policy Committee. Dr. Rosenfield is on the Boards of Trustees of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and a member of the IOM Board on Global Health. He is the founding Director of the Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia’s Mailman School and former acting Chair for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University.
Dr. Spiegel is the newly appointed Marilyn and Stanley Katz Dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs of Yeshiva University. Previously, Dr. Spiegel served as Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) from 1999-2006. He served in the military as a surgeon in the U.S. Public Health Service from July 1973 to 1999, earning Outstanding and Meritorious Service Medals. Dr. Spiegel has served on numerous editorial boards for publications including Endocrine Reviews and Current Opinion in Oncologic, Endocrine and Metabolic Drugs.
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-by Sarah Rathsam
Posted on November 21, 2007
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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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