Kington Named NIH Deputy
Director
February 14, 2003 - National Institutes of Health
Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Feb. 10 named Raynard Kington,
M.D., Ph.D., as the agency's new Deputy Director. Dr. Kington
has served as NIH Associate Director for Behavioral and Social
Sciences Research since November 2000, and served as Acting
Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA) from January to September 2002. Prior to joining the
NIH, Dr. Kington served as Director of the Division of Health
Examination Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He earned
his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University
of Michigan and completed his residency training in Internal
Medicine at the Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago.
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