At its 38th annual meeting on Oct. 13, 2008 in Washington, D.C., the Institute of Medicine honored long-time Section member and former chair Dr. Linda Randolph by electing her as one of the 65 newest members of the Institute of Medicine. The election is a very high honor, and Dr. Randolph said, “I am so pleased to be recognized for my work by colleagues I hold in high esteem, many of whom have served as mentors.” A graduate of the Howard University College of Medicine, the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Harvard University School of Business, Dr. Randolph is a public health pediatrician and senior level executive with over 30 years of experience as a clinician, administrator, and public health expert in federal, state and city government, academia, and private philanthropy. Congratulations, Linda!
Dr. Randolph is President and CEO of the Developing Families Center in northeast Washington, D.C. The Developing Families Center, Inc. is an innovative collaboration of three not-for-profit organizations (the Family Health and Birth Center, the Health Babies Project, and the United Planning Organization's Early Childhood Development Center) whose mission is to meet the primary health care, social service and child development needs of under-served individuals and childbearing and childrearing families.