Profession
Medical board names new director
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Jan. 24, 2005
Timothy C. Miller, a former Arizona assistant attorney general, has started his new job as executive director of the Arizona Medical Board.
Miller is an attorney with extensive experience in health law and agency regulatory law.
As chief of the Bureau for Consumer Rights within the Division of Behavioral Health Services at the Arizona Dept. of Health Services, he oversaw the protection of the legal and treatment rights of consumers with serious mental illnesses in the publicly funded behavioral health system.
"Mr. Miller brings to the [medical board] great experience as a prior regulator and administrator with the Arizona Dept. of Health Services and the Arizona Attorney General's office," Board Chair Edward J. Schwager, MD, said in a statement.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/01/24/prbf0124.htm.