Mahoney Named Resident Representative to AAFP

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Martin Mahoney, M.D., Ph.D., of Kenmore, has been appointed to a two-year term as the American Academy of Family Physicians' (AAFP) resident representative on the Council on Medical Specialty Societies.

He also has been reappointed to a one-year term as resident representative on the AAFP's Commission on Public Health.

The AAFP represents nearly 80,000 family physicians, family-practice residents and medical students. Its Commission on Public Health works to improve the health of the U.S. population through health promotion, disease prevention and patient and public-education activities.

The Council on Medical Specialty Societies, composed of representatives from 17 medical societies, is concerned with policy development and decision-making on issues dealing with graduate and continuing medical education. Mahoney will serve as vice chair of the resident section.

Mahoney is completing a three-year residency in family medicine in Western New York hospitals. He also is a clinical instructor in the University at Buffalo's Department of Family Medicine, an assistant professor in Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Graduate Division and an assistant professor of epidemiology at SUNY Albany's School of Public Health.

A graduate of Canisius College, he holds master's, doctoral and medical degrees from UB. He won the Upjohn Award for Research and the American Academy of Family Physicians' President's Award in 1995, and the Dr. John Paroski Memorial Award from UB Medical School in 1994.

He received the American Public Health Association's Jay Dortman Memorial Award in 1992 for his research involving mortality patterns among the Seneca Nation of Indians.

Mahoney has continued his research with native populations, and is a founding member of the Network for Cancer Control Research in American-Indian and Alaska-Native populations, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.