The United States Preventive Services Task Force has named of Virginia A. Moyer, MD, MPH, a professor of pediatrics and head of academic general pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of the academic medicine service at Texas Children's Hospital, as its new chair, according to a news release by the USPSTF.
The group, an independent, volunteer panel of 16 private-sector experts in prevention and primary care that makes recommendations to primary care clinicians about preventive services, also named Albert L. Siu, MD, MSPH, and Michael L. LeFevre, MD, MSPH, as co-vice chairs.
Dr. Siu is an internist, geriatrician, health services and policy researcher, and the Ellen and Howard Katz chairman and professor at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Bronx VA Medical Center.
Dr. LeFevre is the Future of Family Medicine professor and associate chair in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Dr. LeFevre also serves as the Chief Medical Information Officer for University of Missouri Health Care.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides ongoing administrative and technical support to the Task Force.
Read the release on the United States Preventative Services Task Force.
The group, an independent, volunteer panel of 16 private-sector experts in prevention and primary care that makes recommendations to primary care clinicians about preventive services, also named Albert L. Siu, MD, MSPH, and Michael L. LeFevre, MD, MSPH, as co-vice chairs.
Dr. Siu is an internist, geriatrician, health services and policy researcher, and the Ellen and Howard Katz chairman and professor at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Bronx VA Medical Center.
Dr. LeFevre is the Future of Family Medicine professor and associate chair in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Dr. LeFevre also serves as the Chief Medical Information Officer for University of Missouri Health Care.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides ongoing administrative and technical support to the Task Force.
Read the release on the United States Preventative Services Task Force.