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Article: Dr. Barry H. Thompson, FAAP, FACMG Joins American College of Medical Genetics ACMG as Medical Director: Physician Geneticist Will Play Key Role in Outreach to the Medical Profession and Medical Organizations.
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- Pediatrics Week
- Article date:
- December 6, 2008
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Barry H. Thompson, MD, FAAP, FACMG joined the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) as Medical Director. "This new clinical geneticist position will play a vital role in representing geneticists' interests across the medical field and will have broad, significant responsibilities including active involvement in the ACMG's interactions with other medical associations, specifically, and the American Medical Association," says ACMG President Joe Leigh Simpson, MD, FACOG, FACMG. "Dr. Thompson will work with ACMG's Executive Director Michael S. Watson, PhD, FACMG in extending many current initiatives and also in developing others."
Dr. Thompson will also have ...