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color:#1F497D'>Congratulations Hank,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Looking forward to continuing to work with you. You have
reached the "higher ground" - take care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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hlthpol-bounces@listserv.ohio.edu [mailto:hlthpol-bounces@listserv.ohio.edu] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Cooper, Nancy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> hlthpol@listserv.ohio.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Hlthpol] Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., New President and CEO of
Federation of State Medical Boards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>For Immediate Release:
September 24, 2009 </span></b><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Contact: Drew Carlson, (817)
868-4043; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:dcarlson@fsmb.org"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>dcarlson@fsmb.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>; </span><a
href="http://www.fsmb.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>www.fsmb.org</span></a><span
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style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Federation of State
Medical Boards Names</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Humayun J. Chaudhry,
D.O., President and CEO</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i>Leading New York
health administrator and medical educator tapped to </i><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i>lead organization
representing nation’s state medical boards</i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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. </span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>“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.”</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Health
Commissioner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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. </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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 <i>Newsday</i> commended Dr. Chaudhry for
“intently but calmly... (steering) the public on a better middle course between
apathy and alarm.”</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Medical
Educator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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
732</span><sup><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>nd</span></sup><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> Airlift Squadron and as the Medical Operations Flight
Commander for the 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron of the 514th Air Mobility
Wing.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dr. Chaudhry is the principal
author of <i>Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine</i> (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.</span><sup><span style='font-size:7.5pt'> </span></sup><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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. </span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.</span><sup><span
style='font-size:7.5pt'> </span></sup><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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>
<a href="mailto:coopern@ohio.edu">coopern@ohio.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Congratulations Hank,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Looking forward to continuing to work with you. You have
reached the "higher ground" - take care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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hlthpol-bounces@listserv.ohio.edu [mailto:hlthpol-bounces@listserv.ohio.edu] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Cooper, Nancy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> hlthpol@listserv.ohio.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Hlthpol] Humayun J. Chaudhry, D.O., New President and CEO of
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>For Immediate Release:
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Contact: Drew Carlson, (817)
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style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Federation of State
Medical Boards Names</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Humayun J. Chaudhry,
D.O., President and CEO</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i>lead organization
representing nation’s state medical boards</i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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. </span><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>“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.”</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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. </span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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 <i>Newsday</i> commended Dr. Chaudhry for
“intently but calmly... (steering) the public on a better middle course between
apathy and alarm.”</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> Airlift Squadron and as the Medical Operations Flight
Commander for the 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron of the 514th Air Mobility
Wing.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dr. Chaudhry is the principal
author of <i>Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine</i> (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.</span><sup><span style='font-size:7.5pt'> </span></sup><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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. </span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.</span><sup><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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>
<a href="mailto:coopern@ohio.edu">coopern@ohio.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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