, /PRNewswire/ -- Gary Freed, DO, FAAP, FACOP, a subordinate of the PCOM Georgia Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine objective acquisition department, received the Leila D. Denmark Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics connected Friday, November 18. This designation is the highest grant the section bestows and honors his beingness of enactment and contributions to the pediatric profession. For the implicit story, click here.
The grant is named aft Leila Daughtry Denmark, MD, 1 of the archetypal women pediatricians successful Georgia who was among the oldest known practicing physicians until her status astatine the property of 103, aft 73 years successful practice.
Dr. Freed, who retired from Emory University School of Medicine successful 2017 and began teaching astatine PCOM Georgia 2 days later, is the archetypal Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine to person this grant successful the state.
At Emory University School of Medicine, Dr. Freed served arsenic a prof of pediatrics for 26 years and arsenic the pediatric clerkship manager for 15 years.
Before his status from objective medicine, Dr. Freed was considered 1 of the starring "experts" connected Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Safe Sleep successful Georgia by the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics owed to his 30 years of enactment successful this area. During his neonatology fellowship grooming astatine Robert Wood Johnson successful Camden, New Jersey, helium conducted probe and worked with the programme caput astatine 1 of the lone SIDS clinics successful confederate New Jersey. After graduating, helium accepted a presumption arsenic the objective manager of the American SIDS Institute successful Atlanta successful 1987.
Dr. Freed past worked done Emory University School of Medicine arsenic the manager of the word and intermediate attraction nurseries astatine Grady Memorial Hospital. He soon established an outpatient session to travel the babies who had precocious from the neonatal intensive attraction portion astatine the Emory strategy of nurseries. Soon, different neonatologists began sending their babies to the session for follow-up, and a statewide programme for children experiencing babe apnea began.
PCOM Georgia is simply a private, not-for-profit, accredited institute of higher acquisition dedicated to the healthcare professions. The Suwanee, Georgia, field is affiliated with Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and offers doctoral degrees successful osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, and carnal therapy and postgraduate degrees successful biomedical sciences, aesculapian laboratory science, and doc adjunct studies. pcom.edu
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