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	<b><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">ABPS&reg; Board of Certification in Emergency Medicine (BCEM) Appoints</span></b></p>
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	<b><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'times new roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Public Member </span></b></p>
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	<span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; color: black"><font size="3">Mary O&rsquo;Neill Mundinger, DrPH, RN, of New York City, has been appointed to the Board of Certification in Emergency Medicine (BCEM) as a&nbsp;Public Member of the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>Dr. Mundinger earned a doctorate degree in health policy from Columbia University where she served as Dean of Columbia University School of Nursing for&nbsp;twenty-five years.&nbsp; Most of her work has been in health policy, including conducting a randomized trial comparing MD&rsquo;s and NP&rsquo;s in comprehensive primary care.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; color: black"><font size="3">&ldquo;Mary will bring important matters of public interest to the board certification process in emergency medicine and she will provide an added dimension to board certification review and planning&rdquo; said Margaret Vives-Austin, M.D.,FAAEP, BCEM Chair.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; color: black"><font size="3">Dr. Mundinger is a nationally recognized health policy expert who served as a member of the White House National Steering Committee on Health in 1995.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; color: black"><font size="3">ABPS was the first certifying organization to include public members on its member boards representing the public&rsquo;s interests in patient welfare. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>ABPS public members collaborate with medical professionals to bring critical insight to the physician certification process that contributes to the health and safety of patients.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; color: black"><font size="3">ABPS is the official certifying body of the American Association of Physician Specialists, Inc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>(AAPS&reg;) with headquarters located in Tampa, Florida. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
