IHA Names Ron Bangasser, M.D. to Board.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 30, 2001 The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a statewide leadership group active in health care policy and managed care issues, announces the appointment of Ronald P. Bangasser, M.D., medical director of Beaver Medical Group, to its Board of Directors. Bangasser is active in both the American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. and the California Medical Association (CMA) and in March 2001 was elected Speaker of the CMA House of Delegates House of Delegates n. The lower house of the state legislature in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. , that group's policy making body. He also serves on the board of directors of the California Association of Physician Organizations. Locally, he has been president of the San Bernardino County Medical Society and chief of staff at Redlands Community Hospital. Bangasser received his medical degree from Chicago Medical School The Chicago Medical School is the medical school of the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. Founded in 1912, the Chicago Medical School has a nearly 100 year history of a broadly-based socially constructive admission process relatively unlike that of other and served his residency at the San Bernardino Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. . A board certified family physician, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Medicine and an associate professor of Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is a teaching hospital of Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California, United States. LLUMC is home to the Venom E.R, which specializes in snake bites. . IHA (www.iha.org) is a statewide leadership group of health plans, physician groups, and health care systems, plus at large academic, purchaser, consumer, and pharmaceutical industry representatives, committed to policy development, public dialogue, and special projects associated with the continuing evolution of managed health care. |
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