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1993.
10.27 : Appointment of Jo Ivey Boufford

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Contact: Rayford Kytle 
Wednesday, October 27, 1993 
(202) 690-6867

     HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced today the appointment
of Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., as principal deputy to HHS assistant
secretary for health, Philip R. Lee, M.D., head of the U.S. Public
Health Service.
     "Dr. Boufford adds luster to our distinguished leadership at
the Public Health Service," Secretary Shalala said.  "Her
experience in administering large health care systems in the United
States and her recent experience abroad ideally prepare her for
America's public health challenges."
     Dr. Lee also voiced his pleasure at Dr. Boufford's
appointment.  "Dr. Boufford's knowledge of health systems
management, health professions education, primary care organization
and the needs of underserved communities make her an excellent
addition to our team as we enter the era of major health care
reform," he said.
     Dr. Boufford served from March 1991 until September 1993 as
director of the King's Fund College in London.  The college
specializes in personal and professional management development and
education.  Its mission is to strengthen the management and
organizational effectiveness of the United Kingdom's National
Health Service and associated health and human service
organizations to improve the population's health.  Dr. Boufford's
work there included consulting on implementation of the recent
health services reform in the United Kingdom and health policy and
management development in other countries in Western, Central and
Eastern Europe.
     Dr. Boufford was president of the New York City Health and
Hospitals Corporation from December 1985 until October 1989.  She
joined the corporation as vice president for medical and
professional Affairs in March 1982 and was promoted to executive
vice president in May 1985.  New York has the largest municipal
hospital system in the United States with 11 acute care hospitals,
five long term care facilities, over 40 community clinics and
responsibility for the city's emergency ambulance service.
     From 1975 to 1982, Dr. Boufford was director of the Residency
Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital and Medical
Center in New York City, a program designed to train primary care
physicians for inner city practice.
     Dr. Boufford, 48, is a native of Durham, N.C. She attended
Wellesley College from 1963 to 1965 and graduated magna cum laude
from the University of Michigan in 1967, with a B.A. in psychology. 
She received her M.D., with distinction, from the University of
Michigan Medical School in 1971.  She trained in the Social
Pediatric Residency program at Montefiore Hospital and Medical
Center and is board certified in pediatrics.
     Dr. Boufford was inducted into the Institute of Medicine,
National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
     She was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship
at the Institute of Medicine in 1979-80.  She has served on
national advisory panels in the United States on undergraduate and
graduate medical education and health personnel, including the
National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education for what
is now the Department of Health and Human Services from 1976-1980.
     A past president of the Society for Health and Human Values,
she served on the boards of directors of the Ambulatory Pediatric
Association and Physicians for Human Rights.  She was a member of
the editorial boards of the Journal of Medical Education and of The
New Physician and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of
the National Council for Women's Health.
     Dr. Boufford holds an academic appointment at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine in voluntary clinical status as
associate professor in the departments of epidemiology and social
medicine and of pediatrics.