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AHRQ Announces New Members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, March 29th, 2009

Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, announced the appointment of three new members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Susan Curry, Ph.D., of Iowa City; Joy Melnikow, M.D., M.P.H., of Sacramento; and Wanda Nicholson, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., of Baltimore will join the Task Force this month.

The Task Force, which is sponsored by AHRQ, consists of 16 health care experts in the specialties of family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, geriatrics, preventive medicine, public health, behavioral medicine and nursing.

Dr. Curry is the dean of the College of Public Health...

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