Barlow Elected President of UB Medical Alumni Association

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Jared C. Barlow, M.D., of Grand Island, has been elected president of the Medical Alumni Association of the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for 1997-98.

Also elected were Elizabeth L. Maher, M.D., of Williamsville, vice president, and Richard L. Collins, M.D., of Clarence, treasurer.

Barlow, an anesthesiologist, is medical director of the Millard Fillmore Surgery Center in Williamsville and chair of anesthesiology for the Millard Fillmore Health System. A UB clinical associate professor of anesthesiology, he graduated from the medical school in 1966 and holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.

Following an internship and residency in anesthesiology at Millard Fillmore, he became a major in the U.S. Army, serving one year with the 71st evacuation unit in Pleikeu, Vietnam, and one year at Fort Dix, N.J. He returned to the hospital as an attending anesthesiologist in 1971.

Barlow is past president of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists and chairs its committee on substance abuse. He also serves on two committees of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Maher is a 1985 graduate of the medical school and a UB clinical instructor of medicine. A specialist in family medicine, she is an emergency-department attending physician at Medina Memorial Hospital.

Collins is a primary-care internist with the Buffalo Medical Group and a UB clinical assistant professor of medicine. He graduated from the UB medical school in 1983.