CHICAGO, Sept. 25, 2008 – Susan Day, MD, has been named chair of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Board of Directors.

Dr. Day, a board-certified ophthalmologist, is chair of the department of ophthalmology at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She has served on the ACGME Board since 2004.

Timothy Flynn, MD, was elected vice chair of the ACGME Board. The ACGME’s Executive Committee also includes Roger Plummer, treasurer; ACGME CEO Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, secretary; and Louis Cantor, MD; Richard Pan, MD; Carl Patow, MD; and Carol Rumack, MD.

New members elected to the Board are David L. Brown, MD, chair of the Anesthesiology Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; John F. Duval, MD, CEO of the Medical College of Virginia Hospital and Clinics, Richmond, Va.; David J. Fine, CEO of St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, Houston, Texas; and Dorothy Lane, MD, MPH, associate dean of continuing medical education at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. William J. Walsh, MD, was appointed as a resident director.

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The ACGME is a private, non-profit organization that accredits approximately 8,400 residency programs in 126 specialties and subspecialties that educate 107,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality of health care in the United States by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians' education.