For Release: February 11, 2002
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AuBuchon to Chair Pathology Department

Hanover, NH - James P. AuBuchon, MD, has been appointed the inaugural E. Elizabeth French Professor and chair of pathology at Dartmouth Medical School. His appointment, effective immediately, was announced by John C. Baldwin, MD, dean of DMS and vice president of health affairs of Dartmouth College.

"He is distinguished clinician and scholar, a noted teacher, and an exemplary institutional citizen. We are indeed fortunate that Dr. AuBuchon has accepted this position," Baldwin said.

AuBuchon has been acting chair of pathology since October 2000 when William Hickey, MD, vacated the position to become senior associate dean for academic affairs.

The E. Elizabeth French Professorship was established in 2001 in memory of the first woman physician who was a professor at the medical school. The endowed professorship is held by a faculty member active in teaching medical students, and preferably a clinician in the pathology department. French was a pathologist who was the first--and for years the only--woman member of the Hitchcock Clinic.

AuBuchon is an expert in decision analysis and blood storage improvement, and speaks around the globe on blood supply safety. He is active in the American Association of Blood Banks, where he is member of the Board of Directors and the chair of the Scientific Section Coordinating Committee; in the College of American Pathologists, where he is vice chair of the Transfusion Medicine Resource Committee; and in the International Society for Blood Transfusion, through the working party for Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, AuBuchon obtained his medical degree in 1978, after receiving his bachelor's degree there in cellular biology. He trained in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Wisconsin, and he was a senior staff fellow in the Department of Transfusion Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

AuBuchon came to Dartmouth in 1990 from the American Red Cross where he was the medical officer at National Headquarters and had served as the director of several blood services regions. At Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, he has served as the medical director of the Blood Bank and Transfusion Service. He is also a fellow of the College of American Pathologists and the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh).

AuBuchon and his wife, Susan, reside in Sunapee. Their daughters attend college; Khara is a senior at Champlain College, and Allison is a freshman at the University of South Florida.

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