[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 10, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1183]
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                 RECOGNITION OF RICHARD M. KNAPP, PH.D.

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                          HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 10, 2008

  Mr. WAXMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize the contributions of 
Richard M. Knapp, Ph.D., who is retiring as Executive Vice President of 
the Association of American Medical Colleges, AAMC, after 40 years of 
service to the Nation on behalf of medical schools and teaching 
hospitals.
  As the senior policy advisor to the AAMC, Dr. Knapp has provided 
leadership on a wide range of health policy matters, particularly 
regarding the delivery of hospital and medical services where medical 
education simultaneously occurs and research brings advances.
  Dr. Knapp joined the AAMC in 1968 after earning a bachelor of arts 
degree from Marietta College, in Marietta, Ohio, and a Ph.D. in 
hospital and health administration from the University of Iowa.
  He has consistently been a fair and thoughtful advocate for the 
Nation's teaching hospitals and medical schools, and his knowledge and 
integrity are widely recognized and appreciated.
  Dr. Knapp's service to the health community includes his tenure on 
the Board of Trustees of the Inova Health System in Fairfax County, 
Virginia, from 1983-2005, where he served as chair from 1999-2003. He 
is a past chairman of the National Association for Biomedical Research 
and has held the offices of secretary and treasurer in the Federation 
of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions. He also served on 
the Advisory Board for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy 
Fellowships.
  Before becoming executive vice president of the AAMC, Dr. Knapp 
served the organization as senior vice president, director of the 
Department of Teaching Hospitals, director of the Division of Teaching 
Hospitals, and director of a teaching hospital project.
  His contributions to health care policy have been recognized by his 
election to the Institute of Medicine.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in wishing Dr. Knapp and his family 
every success and happiness in the next phase of his life.

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