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In her public debut as the newly announced first holder of the
Frederick C. Robbins Professor of Child and Adolescent Health,
Barbara A. Cromer delivered a lecture to about 100 guests at the
Allen Memorial Medical Library.
She discussed three major issues facing today's adolescents-obesity,
smoking and teen-age pregnancy-and presented information on approaches
to changing teens' behaviors around these issues.
Cromer, a Lakewood resident, has been on the faculty of the Case
Western Reserve University School of Medicine since 1999 and director
of the school's Center for Adolescent Health since 2000. She is
one of only four Northeast Ohio physicians who is board-certified
in adolescent health.
"With this chair, I hope to increase my knowledge of adolescent
medicine and to pass it on to a new generation of physicians,
teachers and researchers," Cromer said.
The new professorship, established by the CWRU Board of Trustees,
honors Robbins, a 1954 Nobel Prize winner who has been on the
CWRU faculty for 50 years. The professorship was made possible
through gifts and pledges totaling more than $1.65 million from
Robbinsâ family, friends and colleagues.
During his career in Cleveland, Robbins helped establish the
Department of Pediatrics at what is now MetroHealth Medical Center,
served as dean of the CWRU School of Medicine and was a co-founder
and former director of the adolescent center. Currently, he is
dean emeritus and university professor emeritus.
Also as part of the recognition of Robbins' service, the fifth
floor of the east wing of the School of Medicine has been named
the Frederick C. Robbins Center. Donors who contribute $10,000
or more toward this effort will have their names engraved on brass
plates on the seats of the floor's lecture hall, and donors of
$5,000 or more will be recognized on individual plaques on the
lecture hall's walls, where all other donors will be recognized
as well.
The efforts for this recognition have been led by Class of 1946
medical school alumnus Robert M. Eiben, CWRU professor emeritus
of pediatric neurology.
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