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News Release — May 1, 2007
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
May 1, 2007
Medical Board of California Elects New Board President
SACRAMENTO—The Medical Board of California has elected Richard Fantozzi, M.D., of San Diego and Murrieta, as its 2007 - 2008 president. The Medical Board is the state agency responsible for licensing and regulating over 122,000 physicians in California. The board has 21 members; 12 are physicians and nine are public members. It has a staff of 265 employees, and a budget of $51 million that is supported by physician licensing fees.
Dr. Fantozzi was appointed to the board by Governor Gray Davis in 2001 and reappointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005. He served as vice president in the past year, and president of the board's Division of Licensing for the past two years. He has been licensed to practice medicine in California since 1976.
"I am pleased that this board embraces its role as an advisor to the administration, the legislature, consumer advocacy groups, and physician groups on matters related to health policy and consumer protection," said Dr. Fantozzi.
Dr. Fantozzi has been a particularly active member of the board, with a special interest in access-to-care issues. He has chaired the board's Midwifery, International Medical Schools, Diversion, and Special Programs committees. He was appointed to the Health Professions and Education Foundation (HPEF), under the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, by the Medical Board, and chairs its program development. HPEF offers scholarships and loan repayment programs to students and graduates pursuing a health professions career.
He also is on the Governor's Diabetes Workshop Initiative to develop a California chronic care model for the management of chronic diabetes. In addition, he has served on the Governor's roundtable for physicians' workforce needs. This group evaluates the distribution needs of patients-to-physicians in California, and identifies disparities.
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The mission of the Medical Board is to protect healthcare consumers through the proper licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons and certain allied healthcare professions and through the vigorous, objective enforcement of the Medical Practice Act.
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