Barbara Cromer, professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine, has been named director of the school's Center for Adolescent Health.Posted 12-8-00
CLEVELAND -- Barbara Cromer, professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine, has been named director of the school's Center for Adolescent Health.
She succeeds Frederick Robbins, emeritus dean, 1954 Nobel laureate, and former president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, who announced last year that he would be stepping down.
Robbins helped launch the center in 1990 and became its director in 1992. He remains active in the center's activities, continues to lecture graduate and medical students at CWRU, and is working on a book about vaccines.
Carlyn Yanda recently stepped down as the center's associate director. Yanda, instructor of reproductive biology at the School of Medicine, was instrumental in the center's formation. She continues to teach part-time at the medical school and also is working on a project about primary health care in the Ukraine.
"Retirement for Fred and Carlyn just means a redirection of energies," said Cromer.
Cromer earned her medical degree at Ohio State University in 1977, served her residency in pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital from 1977-80, then was assistant director of the outpatient clinic in the Department of Pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center and an instructor in pediatrics at CWRU for two years.
After completing a fellowship in adolescent medicine and behavioral pediatrics at the University of Maryland, she became a member of the faculty at Ohio State University in 1984. She returned to Cleveland in 1999 as professor of pediatrics at the CWRU School of Medicine and director of adolescent medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center.
Cromer is one of only four Cleveland-area physicians who are board-certified in adolescent medicine. Her research and scientific publications involve multiple aspects of adolescent health care, with a particular focus on the psychosocial and medical aspects of hormonal contraception in adolescents.
The center's mission is to improve the physical, psychosocial and environmental health of adolescents, with a strong emphasis on the Greater Cleveland community. The center works closely with many professional schools and departments at the university and with other organizations in Cuyahoga County, and it is the coordinating body for the Adolescent Consortium of Northeast Ohio.
The Web site for the Center for Adolescent Health is http://www.cwru.edu/med/adolescenthealth/blah.html.
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