Sultz Appointed to National Advisory Committee

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Harry A. Sultz, D.D.S., professor of social and preventive medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and director of the school's Health Services Research Program, has been appointed to the National Advisory Committee of a federally supported program called "Partners in Managing the Health of the Community."

The program, established to promote the exchange of expertise among schools of medicine, schools of public health and managed-care organizations, is based in the schools of Medicine and Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The three-year project will create several mechanisms to enable managed-care organizations to benefit from the academic expertise in population-based medicine and to help medical students and faculty to gain a better understanding of the concepts, policies and practices of managed care.

Other members of the committee include the deans of the schools of Medicine and Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill; the president of the American Association of Health Plans; the director of the Health Services and Policy Research at the Research Triangle Institute; the medical directors of Southeast Permanente Medical Group and Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound and representatives from the Department of Veteran's Affairs and the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Sultz also is a clinical assistant professor in the UB Department of Family Medicine and an adjunct professor of health systems management in the UB School of Management. A former dean of the School of Health Related Professions at UB, he also serves as chair of the UB medical school's Health Policy Council.

A graduate of the UB School of Dental Medicine, Sultz received a master's degree in public health from Columbia University.

He resides in Williamsville.