CHICAGO, Oct. 13, 2003 - The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's Board of Directors elected its 2003-04 officers and directors at the Board's Sept. 22 meeting.
Charles L. Rice, MD, vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, continues his term as chair. Emmanuel G. Cassimatis, MD, associate dean for clinical affairs for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, was elected chair-elect. Wm. James Howard, MD, senior vice president and medical director of Washington Hospital Center, was elected treasurer.
The Board elected two new directors for three-year terms. The new board members are Edward C. Bope, MD, program director for family practice at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and a clinical professor at Ohio State University; and public director Roger Plummer, president of Plummer and Associates Consulting in Chicago.
Directors Carol Berkowitz, MD, acting director of medical education at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center; Maximilian L. Buja, MD, dean of the University of Texas-Houston Medical School; William H. Hartmann, MD, executive vice president of the American Board of Pathology; Sheldon Miller, MD, the Lizzie Gilman professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University; and Sandra F. Olson, MD, president of the American Academy of Neurology, were re-elected for three-year terms. Duncan McDonald, a professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, was re-elected for a three-year term as a public director.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits 7,800 residency programs
in 27 specialties affecting 100,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality
of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate
medical education for physicians in training.
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