[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 29, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                   TRIBUTE TO DR. STEPHAN L. KAMHOLZ

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 28, 1994

  Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Dr. Stephan L. 
Kamholz a foremost expert in his field, pulmonary medicine. He is 
applying his skills for the good of his community.
  Dr. Kamholz was appointed chairman of the department of medicine of 
the Health Science Center at Brooklyn in October 1993. He has served on 
the faculty since 1986 and was named a professor of medicine in 1988. 
His will deserved appointment as chairman is the culmination of 8 years 
of service.
  Prior to assuming the chairmanship, Dr. Kamholz served as chief of 
the division of pulmonary medicine at University Hospital and Kings 
County Hospital Center, and was academic chief of pulmonary medicine at 
the Brooklyn VA Medical Center. He has also been director of the 
internal medicine training program since 1991.
  Dr. Kamholz is also the author or coauthor of more than 60 scientific 
articles, as well as numerous abstracts and textbook chapters. He is a 
fellow of the American College of Physicians, the New York Academy of 
Medicine, and the New York Society for Thoracic Surgery. He is a member 
of the association for Academic Minority Physicians, as well as a 
member of the steering committee of the clinical pulmonary medicine 
section of the American College of Chest Physicians.
  Dr. Kamholz has also been active in direct patient care at New York 
City Health and Hospitals Corp. institutions including Morrisania City 
Hospital, North Central Bronx Hospital, and Brooklyn's own Kings County 
Hospital Center where he has been practicing for the past 8 years.
  After earning his bachelor of arts degree from New York University in 
1968, he received his doctor of medicine degree from New York Medical 
College in 1972. He completed his training as an attending physician at 
the Montefiore Medical Center in internal medicine and pulmonary 
disease and was an associate professor of medicine at Albert Einstein 
College of Medicine.
  Dr. Kamholz has shown incredible range and expertise in the attending 
administrative, and academic aspects of medicine. Countless numbers of 
patients have felt his healing touch. It is with great pleasure that I 
ask my fellow members to join me in commending Dr. Stephan L. Kamholz, 
a man dedicated to his work.

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