[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 9535]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO RICHARD HELLMAN, M.D.

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                           HON. DENNIS MOORE

                               of kansas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 24, 2006

  Mr. MOORE of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring to the 
attention of this recent election of Kansas City metro area resident 
Richard Hellman, MD, FACP, FACE, as President-Elect of the Board of 
Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endo-
crinologists, at its Fifteenth Annual Meeting and Clinical Congress in 
Chicago on April 29, 2006. Since 1999, he had served on the AACE Board 
of Directors.
  Dr. Hellman has been privately practicing with a focus on diabetes 
mellitus and endocrinology in Kansas City, Missouri, since 1981; he is 
board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology. He is a 
clinical professor of medicine at the University of Missouri, Kansas 
City, School of Medicine and is the past president of the Metropolitan 
Medical Society of Greater Kansas City, a current member of the Health 
Commission of Kansas City and chair of their Patient Safety Task Force.
  He graduated from the Chicago Medical School and completed all of his 
post-graduate training at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. 
Hellman is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor 
society. He is also the medical director of the Heart of America 
Diabetes Foundation.
  A methodology and data expert for the Physician Consortium for 
Performance Improvement, Dr. Hellman is also a member of their 
executive committee and co-chairs their implementation work group. The 
Consortium is convened by the American Medical Association and includes 
representatives from more than 70 national medical specialty and state 
medical societies. The Consortium seeks to provide physician 
performance measures for both the Center for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services and for specialty boards. He was the first to show how an 
electronic health record can be used to improve adherence to the 
Consortium's physician performance measures. Dr. Hellman is the AMA 
representative for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare 
Organizations Advisory Group for Disease-Specific Care Certification 
and serves on the National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance's 
Technical Expert Panel. He is also currently on the AMA expert panel on 
medication reconciliation.
  In short, Mr. Speaker, Dr. Richard Hellman is a dedicated community 
leader in the medical field who is extremely well qualified to assume a 
leadership position with the 5,300 member-American Association of 
Clinical Endocrinologists. I am pleased to have this opportunity to 
bring his accomplishments to the attention of the House and to pay 
tribute to him as he assumes this new position of trust and 
achievement.

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