Nolan Elected to Mastership In Physicians College

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- James P. Nolan, M.D., chair of the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and chief of medicine at The Buffalo General Hospital, has been elected to mastership in the American College of Physicians.

The title was conferred at a convocation ceremony during the college's 76th Annual Session, held recently in Atlanta.

Mastership is the highest level of membership attainable in the American College of Physicians. Masters are elected "for their personal character, positions of honor or influence, contributions toward furthering the purposes of the College, and/or eminence in practice or in medical research."

Nolan was recognized for his many contributions to internal medicine and to the American College of Physicians. A UB faculty member since 1963, he has served the college "with distinction" as governor, regent and, currently, as chair of the Board of Regents.

He also has been a member of the Association of Professors of Medicine, serving as a member or chair of several committees, and as councilor and president.

In addition, he is a member of the Federated Council of Internal Medicine.

The author of more than 100 articles and abstracts, Nolan has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Medicine Experimental and Clinical, and as a reviewer for a number of prestigious journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine and Annals of Internal Medicine.

A resident of Buffalo, he received his medical degree cum laude from Yale University.