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New professorship honors Fred Robbins,
Barbara Cromer first holder The CWRU Board of Trustees has established
the Frederick C. Robbins Professor of Child and Adolescent Health
and has named Barbara A. Cromer to the position. 
The endowed chair is named in honor of
Robbins, CWRU university professor emeritus and medical school
dean emeritus. Robbins shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine and is a past president of the Institute of Medicine
of the National Academy of Sciences. A pediatrician by training,
he helped launch
CWRU's Center for Adolescent Health in
1990 and was its director from 1992 to 2000.
The chair was made possible through gifts and pledges totaling more than $1.65 million from Robbins' family, friends and colleagues in observance of his 50 years of service
on the faculty.
Cromer has been a professor of pediatrics
at the CWRU School of Medicine since 1999 and director of the
school's Center for Adolescent Health since 2000. She earned her
bachelor;s degree, majoring in botany and bacteriology, at Ohio
Wesleyan University in 1972.
After working in junior research positions
at Tulane University Medical School, Washington University in
St. Louis and St. Louis Children's Hospital between 1972 and 1974,
she entered The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She
received her medical degree in 1977, served her residency in pediatrics
at MetroHealth Medical Center and Rainbow Babies & Childrens Hospital,
both in Cleveland, from 1977 to 1980. She also 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 recently completed two three-year
terms on the executive board of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
and recently was elected to the American Pediatric Society, a
prestigious organization for academic pediatricians. She is past
president of the Central Ohio Pediatric Society and the Ohio Valley
Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.
She is one of only four Cleveland-area
physicians 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.
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