National Institute of Handicapped Research Nomination of Margaret Joan Giannini To Be Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate Margaret Joan Giannini, of Pelham Manor, N.Y., to be Director of the National Institute of Handicapped Research, a new position.

Giannini is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Mental Retardation Institute at New York Medical College.

She was born May 27, 1921, in Camden, N.J. She graduated from Boston University and Temple University and received an M.D. from Hahnemann Medical College in 1945. She did her internship at New York Medical College in 1945-46 and was a resident in pathology in 1946-47 and in pediatrics in 1947-48.

From 1948 to 1950, Giannini was a practicing pediatrician. She has been a professor of pediatrics at New York Medical College since 1950 and director of the Mental Retardation Institute since 1956.

Giannini has also served as attending pediatrician at Metropolitan Hospital Medical Center and as a pediatric consultant for the city of New York's Bureau for Handicapped Children. She was interregional adviser in mental retardation to the United Nations Department of World Technical Cooperation in 1978. She has served as president of the American Association on Mental Deficiency.