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AAP News Vol. 1 No. 2 February 1985, p. 12 © 1985 American Academy of Pediatrics
Fellow Virginia Weldon, M.D., has been named chairman-elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The deputy vice chancellor of Washington University's School of Medicine, she is the first woman chosen to head the AAMC in its 108-year history ... Alfred W. Brann, Jr., M.D., FAAP, Atlanta, has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). A former chairman of the AAP's Committee on Fetus and Newborn, Dr. Brann was a co-editor of "Guidelines for Perinatal Care," which was published jointly by the AAP and ACOG ... Three Academy membrs recently were appointed to senior administrative positions at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward, Calif. Fellows Paul H. Jewett, M.D., Francis J. Crosson, Jr., M.D., and Robert Kremers, M.D., have been named Physician-in-Chief, Assistant Physician-in-Chief and Chief of Pediatrics, respectively ... Larry J. Baraff, M.D., FAAP, recently was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Dr. Baraff is associate director of the Emergency Medicine Center at UCLA Medical Center ... Fellow George A. Richard, M.D., has been appointed to serve on the Panel on Organ Transplantation of the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs. Dr. Richard serves as professor and chief of the Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville ... Allen Mathies, Jr., M.D., FAAP, has been named president and chief executive officer at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. Calif. Dr. Mathies, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC), is a senior attending physician in pediatrics at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center.
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