Nomination of Ann S. Peterson To Be a Member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

The President today announced his intention to nominate Ann S. Peterson to be a member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Defense, for a term expiring June 20, 1989. She would succeed Robert Higgins Ebert.

Dr. Peterson is associate director of the division of education for the American Medical Association in Chicago, IL. Previously she served as associate dean at Cornell University Medical College. She was associate dean of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1972-1979; assistant dean and associate dean at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1969-1972; and assistant director, clinical research unit, Georgetown University, in 1962-1969.

She graduated from Cornell University (A.B., 1950), Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1954), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management (M.S., 1980). She was born October 11, 1928, in Rhinebeck, NY, and now resides in Chicago, IL.