[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 2092-2093]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 IN RECOGNITION OF DR. DAVID L. BRONSON

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                       HON. STEVEN C. LaTOURETTE

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 26, 2010

  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize one of my 
constituents, Dr. David L. Bronson, chairman of the Medicine Institute 
of the Cleveland Clinic.

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  Dr. Bronson recently was elected as the 2010 Chairman of the Board of 
Directors of the American Medical Group Association, AMGA, located in 
Alexandria, VA. The group represents more than 360 medical groups, and 
more than 102,000 doctors nationwide are AMGA members. Dr. Bronson is 
an ideal fit for this position. As chair of the clinic's Medicine 
Institute, where he is also professor of Medicine and Chief of Clinical 
Integration, Dr. Bronson is responsible for leading the health system's 
efforts to improve the value of health care.
  Dr. Bronson has been with Cleveland Clinic since 1992 and was 
chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine for four years. From 
1995 until 2008 he developed and led an expansion of the clinic 
throughout the NE Ohio area and beyond, adding 350 new physicians at 17 
sites including operations in Canada. Dr. Bronson has also served as a 
member of the Cleveland Clinic Board of Governors and Board of 
Trustees, and is currently chair of the Board of Directors of the 
Cleveland Clinic Community Physician Partnership.
  Dr. Bronson received his undergraduate degree from the University of 
Maine, and his M.D. degree from the University of Vermont, and he 
completed a residency in internal medicine there and at the University 
of Wisconsin. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, he was vice chair of 
medicine at the University of Vermont.
  He has been a principal or co-principal in several federal and 
foundation-funded research efforts, and has published and presented 
papers in a variety of fields. Dr. Bronson now serves on the Leadership 
Team and chairs the Clinical Advisory Committee of Better Health 
Greater Cleveland, a collaborative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson 
Foundation to improve the health of people with chronic disease.
  Dr. Bronson is well prepared to lead his colleagues and guide AMGA 
and its members toward improving the delivery of health care in the 
years ahead.
  Again, I want to congratulate Dr. Bronson and recognize his 
accomplishments.

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