Carolyn M Clancy, MD director of th...

Carolyn M Clancy, MD director of the AHRQ, lately named family physician Bruce Nedrow (Ned) Calonge, MD MPH Denver chair of the U Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Dr Calonge, who has serv as a member of the USPSTF for sum of two units years, is chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and contribute tos as the state epidemiologist. He is an associate professor of family medicine and of preventive medicine and biometrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver The USPSTF, which is sponsored by means of the AHRQ, is the leading independent panel of private-sector dexterouss in prevention and primary care, and careers impartial assessments of the scientific evidence for a broad range of preventive services, including screening for prostate cancer, cervical cancer, obesity, and hormone therapy. For more information forward the USPSTF, go to the AHRQ Web site at http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfab.htm.

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