Seven directors begin terms on ACGME Board

CHICAGO, November 19, 2009 – At the fall meeting of the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, seven directors began their terms on the Board, and four members completed their terms. The changes took effect at the conclusion of the September 14-15 meeting.

The new directors are:

• E. Stephen Amis Jr., MD, professor and chair of radiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and chair of the Council of Review Committees;
• Rupa J. Dainer, MD, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, and chair of the Council of Review Committee Residents;
• Rosemarie Fisher, MD, director and associate dean of graduate medical education at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine, and vice-chair of the Council of Review Committees;
• Louis J. Ling, MD, associate dean of graduate medical education at the University of Minnesota Medical School and associate medical director for medical education at Hennepin County Medical Center;
• Carmen Hooker Odom, MRP, president, Milbank Memorial Fund;
• William W. Pinsky, MD, executive vice president of Ochsner Health System;
• David Solomon, PhD, the W.P. and H.B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

Directors who completed their terms are Karen Hus Blatman, MD; Edward Bope, MD; Louis Cantor, MD; and Carl Patow, MD.

The winter 2010 ACGME Board of Directors meeting will be held February 7-9 in Carefree, Arizona.

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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits approximately 8,700 residency programs in 130 specialties and subspecialties educating 108,000 residents. Its mission is to improve health care by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians’ education through accreditation.