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JAMA. 1999;281:1783.

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• Joseph S. Bailes, MD, national medical director of Physician Reliance Network, Inc, Dallas, Tex, will begin his term as president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology this month. Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, has been elected the next president and will take office in May 2000.
  
• Alfredo A. Czerwinski, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer of Care Management Science Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa. He will head the firm's Management Services Division from California.
  
• Denton Cooley, MD, the Texas Heart Institute surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant and the first artificial heart implant, has received the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton.
  
• B. Wayne Blount, MD, MPH, professor and vice chair of Family Medicine at Emory University, has been named chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Tennessee at Memphis.
  

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