Andrew I. Schafer, MD, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Physician-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been elected President of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM). He will take office July 1, 2010.

APM is the organization of departments of internal medicine represented by chairs and appointed leaders at medical schools and affiliated teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada. It represents the departmental leadership of the 127 accredited medical schools in North America. The organization's mission is "to provide primary leadership and direction to academic internal medicine, including education, research, and patient care." Founded in 1954, the APM sponsors publication of The American Journal of Medicine.


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