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1991.02.13 :  Appointment -- Coleen Kivlahan 

Contact: Lynn Trible (301) 443-3376
February 13, 1991

       Robert G. Harmon, M.D., M.P.H., administrator of the
Health Resources and Services Administration, today announced the
appointment of Coleen Kivlahan, M.D., M.S.P.H., as the agency's
chief medical officer.  
       HRSA, an agency of the Public Health Service, is the focal
point for ensuring that primary health care is available to
disadvantaged Americans made vulnerable by poverty, isolation,
youth, old age or other conditions that restrict ready access to
care.
       "Dr. Kivlahan's 10 years of experience as a family
physician involved in local and state health policy will be
invaluable as she seeks to help HRSA improve access to health
care for disadvantaged and minority populations," Dr. Harmon
said.
       Dr. Kivlahan was formerly medical director of the Missouri
Department of Social Services-Medicaid Division and of the
Division of Maternal, Child and Family Health of the Missouri
Department of Health.  She held these dual responsibilities from
l987 to 1990.
       A native of Alliance, Ohio, she received her medical
degree from the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo, and a master
of science in public health from the University of Missouri in
Columbia, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow.  She was
certified by the American Board of Family Practice in l980. 
Among her honors is the Faculty Service Award from the University
of Missouri Medical School in 1990 for outstanding service to the
profession.
       While at HRSA, Dr. Kivlahan will continue her
epidemiological research on fatalities resulting from childhood
injuries, especially deaths involving abuse or neglect.     
       Dr. Kivlahan will provide medical direction to various
HRSA programs including maternal and child health, primary care,
and health professions training.  She will help link federal
efforts with those of state and local health departments,
academic centers and the private sector in partnerships to
benefit the medically underserved.

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