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				              CONTACT: Marguerite Beck



               U.VA. MEDICAL SCHOOL APPOINTS FIRST CHAIRMAN 
                  TO HEAD EMERGENCY MEDICINE DEPARTMENT 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., May 15 --Dr. Marcus L. Martin, acting chairman of the 
emergency medicine department at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and 
Hahnemann University in Pittsburgh, has been named chairman of the Department 
of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia. 
	His appointment, announced by Dr. Robert M. Carey, dean of the School 
of Medicine, is effective July 1 subject to his election to the faculty by 
U.Va.'s Board of Visitors.
	"I am extremely excited that Dr. Martin has agreed to lead our effort 
in emergency medicine as the first chairman of the department," Carey said. 
"His leadership experience in emergency medicine at the Medical College of 
Pennsylvania and nationally will be a tremendous asset to our program."
	Martin, who was born in Covington, VA, was director of the Emergency 
Medicine Residency Program at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh from 
1984 to 1995. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic 
Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and is president elect of the Council of Residency 
Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD). He serves on the Board of Visitors 
of North Carolina State University and in various leadership roles for the 
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
	"He was the search committee's first choice because of his success 
in running an emergency department in a highly competitive managed care 
environment coupled with his strong commitment to medical education, 
"said Dr. Scott Syverud, interim chairman of the U.Va. emergency department 
and a member of the search committee.
	 Martin earned his B.S.from North Carolina State University and his 
M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School.
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			                   May 15, 1996