New York Academy of Medicine

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The New York Academy of Medicine was founded in 1847 by a group of leading New York City metropolitan area physicians as a voice for the medical profession in medical practice and public health reform. The Academy quickly established the Metropolitan Board of Health, the first modern municipal public health authority in the United States.

The Academy moved to its current location in 1926: 1216 Fifth Avenue, near Central Park in Manhattan. In recent years the Academy has functioned as an effective advocate in public health reform, as well as a major center for health education. The Academy Library, on premises, is one of the three largest medical collections in the United States and is open to general public. It was founded on the libraries of medical texts that included the collections of the Medical Journal Association, New York Hospital Library and the medical books of the New York Public Library; its historical collection was founded by the purchase in 1928 of many historic medical texts, including many incunabula, from the collection formed by Dr. Edward Clark Streeter (1874-1947). Today's library is very extensive, including original writings by Sigmund Freud and a prototype of George Washington's dentures, constructed from actual teeth that were donated.

In 1939 the Academy prepared Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's LaGuardia Commission report, that when released in 1944 infuriated Harry Anslinger and his campaign against marijuana.

Today, the Academy has over three-thousand Fellows, that include doctors, nurses, health care administrators, and professionals in all fields dedicated to maintaining and improving health. Its peer-reviewed, former quarterly, Journal of Urban Health is published six times a year since January 2006: it reports important clinical developments and policy issues.

[edit] List of presidents

1847– Dr. John Stearns
1848– Dr. John Wakefield Francis
1849– Dr. Valentine Mott
1850– Dr. Isaac Wood
1851– Dr. Alexander H. Stevens
1852– Dr. Thomas Cock
1853– Dr. Isaac Wood
1854– Dr. Joseph M. Smith
1855– Dr. John W. Francis
1856– Dr. Willard Parker
1857– Dr. Valentine Mott
1858– Dr. John P. Batchelder
1859–1860 Dr. John Watson
1861–1866 Dr. James Anderson
1867–1868 Dr. Alfred C. Post
1869–1870 Dr. Henry D. Bulkley
1871–1872 Dr. Edmund R. Peaselee
1875–1878 Dr. Samuel S. Purple
1879–1884 Dr. Fordynce Barker
1885–1888 Dr. Abraham Jacobi
1889–1892 Dr. Alfred L. Loomis
1893–1894 Dr. D.B. St. John Roosa
1895–1896 Dr. Joseph D. Bryant
1897–1898 Dr. Edward G. Janeway
1899–1900 Dr. W.H. Thompson
1901–1902 Dr. Robert F. Weir
1903–1904 Dr. Andrew H. Smith
1905–1906 Dr. Charles L. Dana
1907–1910 Dr. John A. Wyeth
1911–1914 Dr. William A. Polk
1915–1918 Dr. Walter Belknap Jame
s 1919–1924 Dr. George David Stewart
1925–1926 Dr. Samuel Albertus Brown
1927–1928 Dr. Samuel Waldron Lambert
1929–1932 Dr. John Augustus Hartwell
1933–1934 Dr. Bernard Sachs
1935-1936 Dr. Eugene H. Pool
1937–1938 Dr. James Alexander Miller
1939–1942 Dr. Malcolm Goodridge
1943–1944 Dr. Arthur F. Chace
1945– Dr. William Worthington Herrick
1946–1948 Dr. George Baehr
1949–1950 Dr. Benjamin P. Watson
1951-1952 Dr. William Barclay Parsons
1953–1954 Dr. Alexander T. Martin
1955–1956 Dr. Edward J. Donovan
1957–1960 Dr. Robert L. Levy
1961–1962 Dr. Frank Glenn
1963–1964 Dr. Harold Brown Keyes
1965–1966 Dr. John L. Madden
1967–1968 Dr. Preston A. Wade
1968–1970 Dr. John L. Pool
1971–1972 Dr. John E. Deitrick
1973–1974 Dr. Albert C. Santy
1975–1976 Dr. Saul B Gusberg
1977–1978 Dr. Jose M. Ferrer, Jr.
1979–1980 Dr. Joseph Post
1981–1982 Dr. Norbert J. Roberts
1983–1984 Dr. Duncan W. Clark
1985–1986 Dr. Bernard Pisani
1987–1988 Dr. Mary Ann Payne
1989 Dr. Joseph Addonizio
1989–1990 (acting) Dr. Martin Cherkasky
1991–2005 Dr. Jeremiah A. Barondess
2006–Present Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford