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Humayun "Hank" Chaudhry, DO, MACP, MACOI, FRCP is President and CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. The FSMB represents all state and territorial medical boards that license physicians and physician assistants and it operates the Federation Credentials Verification Service (FCVS) and Physician Data Center (PDC), and it co-manages the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) with the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Raised in Brooklyn, Dr. Chaudhry matriculated at NYU, where he received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. He graduated from NYIT's College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1991 and has a Master’s degree from Harvard School of Public Health, where he has been a Guest Lecturer. Dr. Chaudhry completed a rotating internship at St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, New York, followed by an ACGME-accredited residency in Internal Medicine at NYU Langone-Long Island Hospital, where he served an additional year as Chief Resident. He became a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1996, and of the American Board of Osteopathic Internal Medicine in 2006.
Dr. Chaudhry served as Director of Medical Education at Long Beach Medical Center, New York, from 1996-2001, and then as Chair of the Department of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Pre-Clinical Education at NYITCOM, from 2001 to 2007. He became a Flight Surgeon and rose to the rank of Major in the U.S. Air Force Reserves, serving from 1999 to 2013 with the 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron and 732nd Air Refueling Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. In 2007, he was nominated by Suffolk County (New York) Executive Steve Levy and confirmed by the Suffolk County Legislature as Health Commissioner, supervising 1,500 employees and a budget of $400 million. He is credited with creating a new Division of Preventive Medicine within the department through a restructuring of 72 personnel that went into effect on January 1, 2008. Dr. Chaudhry served as President of the American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI) from 2008 to 2009. In 2009, he played a critical role as public health leader, educator and advocate during the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic, when he was recognized by Newsday and its editorial board for “intently but calmly … (steering) the public on a better middle course between apathy and alarm.”
He is the author or co-author of more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and a co-author of two books: Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine and Medical Licensing and Discipline in America. From 2016-2018 he was Chair of the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities (IAMRA), the first time that an osteopathic physician was elected to that role. In 2022 and again in 2023, he was listed by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. He is a Knight of the Equestrian, Secular and Chapterial Order of Chivalry of Saint Joachim, which was founded in Europe in 1755. In 2023, Dr. Chaudhry was recognized by the ACOI as its “Internist of the Year.”
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