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Dr. Humayun Chaudhry: A Public Health Policy Advocate

r. Humayun J. Chaudhry is president and chief course between executive officer of the Federation of State apathy and alarm.” Medical Boards (FSMB) of the . At the DThe FSMB, which operates the Federation College of Credentialing Verification Service (FCVS) and Osteopathic cosponsors the United States Medical Licensing Medicine at NYIT, Exam (USMLE), was founded in 1912 and is the Dr. Chaudhry national not-for-profit organization for the 70 state served as chairman medical boards of the United States and its territo - of the Department ries. of Medicine from Dr. Chaudhry, 44, is married to Nazli Chaudhry, 2001-2007, and as joint secretary of the Islamic Center of Long Island, assistant dean for and a board member of the Domestic Harmony preclinical educa - Foundation. He previously served as the commis - tion from 2003- sioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Dr. Chaudhry 2005, supervising Services, the ninth largest health department in the all undergraduate United States, serving more than 1.5 million resi - medical education delivered to first- and second- dents in an area encompassing 912 square miles. He year medical students, and as the assistant dean for also is a clinical associate professor of preventive health policy from 2005-2007. Additionally, Dr. medicine at School of Chaudhry served as director of medical education at Medicine and an adjunct clinical associate professor Long Beach Medical Center, a 202-bed community of medicine at the New York College of Osteopathic teaching hospital in Long Beach, N.Y., from 1996 to Medicine of New York Institute of Technology 2001 after his medical residency. (NYIT). From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Chaudhry served in the As Suffolk County’s health commissioner, Dr. U.S. Air Force Reserves as a and medical Chaudhry worked closely with County Executive educator, rising to the rank of major and serving as a and directed a broad array of services flight surgeon with the 732nd Airlift Squadron and as providing high-quality, accessible health care to the the medical operations flight commander for the county’s residents, overseeing 1,500 employees and a 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron of the 514th Air budget of $400 million. During his tenure as commis - Mobility Wing. sioner, Dr. Chaudhry created a new Division of Dr. Chaudhry is the principal author of Preventive Medicine to raise public awareness of Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine (4th edition, pub - preventable diseases and promote healthier lished in 2004), a textbook designed primarily for lifestyles. When the H1N1 (swine) flu pandemic medical students. He has led, or participated in, clin - broke out in Suffolk County in April 2009, Dr. ical research in several areas of public health, pre - Chaudhry was praised for taking a proactive public ventive medicine, medical education, and infectious health approach to the new virus, closing schools as diseases, including studies on ways to improve vac - needed and providing hundreds of local, state and cine utilization in acute care settings, the develop - federal health officials with daily public health guid - ment of a multimedia online orientation for the ance via advanced communication technologies fourth-year medicine clerkship, a comprehensive using social media, including . New York’s review of drug-induced aseptic meningitis, a review Newsday commended Dr. Chaudhry for “intently but of streptococcal paratracheal abscesses, and a con - calmly... (steering) the public on a better middle sensus statement on abdominal girth and car -

JIMA: Volume 42, 2010 - Page 124 jima.imana.org diometabolic risk. from the American College of and has Dr. Chaudhry has been active in helping craft been inducted into the American Osteopathic effective health policy on the state and national level Association’s Mentor Hall of Fame. Dr. Chaudhry for many years. He has served as the principal author received a bachelor’s degree in biology and a mas - of resolutions adopted by the American Medical ter’s degree in anatomy from , Association, the Medical Society of the State of New and a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from York, the New York State Chapter of the American the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of Society of Internal Medicine, and the New York New York Institute of Technology in 1991. He com - Chapter of the American College of Physicians. pleted an osteopathic rotating internship at St. Policy issues addressed by Dr. Chaudhry include the Barnabas Hospital in , N.Y., and a three- promotion of warning labels on herbal supplements, year residency in internal medicine at Winthrop support for state funding of cancer prevalence map - University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., where he ping in New York, physician education about pre - served an additional year as chief medical resident. vailing screening guidelines, medical resident duty In 2001, Dr. Chaudhry received a master’s degree in hours and supervision, managed care principles and health care management from the Harvard School of practices, physician workforce predictions, and the Public Health. He is a diplomate in internal medicine training of physicians in women’s health. As chair of of the American Osteopathic Board of Internal the Health and Public Policy Committee of the New Medicine, a diplomate of the National Board of York Chapter of the American College of Physicians, Osteopathic Medical Examiners, and he was a diplo - a state chapter with 12,000 members, he served in mate in internal medicine of the American Board of 2006 as the lead author of a white paper on the Internal Medicine from 1996-2006. future of primary care medicine in New York State. Citing a need to promote careers in primary care Profile submitted by medicine, the report found that in 45 of the 62 coun - ties in New York, primary care physicians represent - Faroque Ahmed Khan, MB, MACP ed less than 50 percent of the physician population Associate Editor, JIMA and, in a ratio similar to that found in developing Master, American College of Physicians countries, seven counties had more than 2,000 Consultant, King Fahad Medical City patients per single primary care provider. Chair, of Institutional Review Board Dr. Chaudhry has served as president of the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia American College of Osteopathic Internists and of Professor of Medicine the Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical SUNY, Stony Brook Educators. He is the recipient of a Laureate Award Stony Brook, New York

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