California Emergency Physicians Group Announces New Board Chairman.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2003 California Emergency Physicians (CEP CEP congenital erythropoietic porphyria. CEP abbr. congenital erythropoietic porphyria ) Medical Group today announced that Ted Kloth, M.D., has been elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Since joining CEP in 1976, Dr. Kloth has held a number of key leadership positions in the Partnership. For the past 12 years, he has been elected to the CEP Board and asked to serve on a number of important committees, including Chairman of the Finance Committee. During this period, Dr. Kloth was instrumental in structuring several important partnership agreement changes and reducing administrative overhead. He received two Distinguished Service awards in recognition of his efforts. Since 1997, Dr. Kloth has contributed to growing the Partnership as Vice President of Business Development. In this role, he has been responsible for evaluating new business opportunities, including new hospital emergency department contracts. His leadership and expertise in mergers and integration helped add 334,000 patient visits per year and 100 physicians to the CEP network. In addition to his executive responsibilities, Dr. Kloth serves as a staff emergency physician at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California Walnut Creek is a largely affluent suburb several miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. While not as large as the neighboring Concord, Walnut Creek serves as the business and entertainment hub for the . Dr. Kloth earned his medical degree at Tulane University History Founding/early history The University dates from 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana.<ref name="facts" /> With the addition of a law department, it became The University of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana. He completed a mixed medicine internship at Harkness Community Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco and trained in a UC Davis family practice residency in Redding, California. Later, Dr. Kloth served as a Medical Epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. , spending four months doing smallpox eradication in Ethiopia with the World Health Organization. While in Atlanta, Dr. Kloth taught at the Emory University Medical School. Dr. Kloth is a Diplomate dip·lo·mate n. One who has received a diploma, especially a physician certified as a specialist by a board of examiners. diplomate (dip´l of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, a member of Alpha Omega Alpha The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, commonly called Alpha Omega Alpha and abbreviated AΩA or AOA, is the national honor society for Allopathic medicine in the United States; Sigma Sigma Phi, abbreviated "SSP", is the honor society of Osteopathic , and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is the largest organization of emergency physicians in the United States. It was founded in 1968 and is now headquartered in Dallas,Texas. . He is also a member of the CEP Executive Management team and serves on the Board of MedAmerica, the management service organization wholly owned by CEP. "The CEP Partnership has demonstrated over the years that it has the right stuff for success -- a democratic participatory governance, intelligent and innovative physician partners, and resourcefulness and flexibility that keeps it at the forefront of emergency medicine," said Dr. Kloth. "I look forward to maintaining our tradition of excellence and working with CEP management to continue to grow the Partnership." Dr. Kloth resides in Walnut Creek, California with his wife Mary and their two children, Anna and David. His mother, Helaine Bernstein, resides in Hollywood, Florida. About CEP CEP was founded in 1975 and is the leading provider of physician staffing and management services for Emergency Departments and Ambulatory Care Centers ambulatory care center Walk-in clinic Medical practice A free-standing facility that provides non-emergent medical, or less commonly, dental services in California. CEP is the largest democratic physician group in the country dedicated to the independent practice of emergency medicine. To date, CEP includes more than 800 providers, 49 Emergency Departments, and 20 Ambulatory Care ambulatory care n. Medical care provided to outpatients. ambulatory care, n the health services provided on an outpatient basis to those who can visit a health care facility and return home the same day. Practices. For more information, visit the CEP website at www.cep.com. |
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