Flynn appointed to Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Board of Surgery

Timothy Flynn, M.D., the college’s associate dean for graduate medical education, has been appointed to two prestigious posts with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Board of Surgery.

Flynn will serve on the board of directors for the ACGME, the organization that accredits and evaluates medical residency programs, beginning in October. He also was elected to serve as vice chairman-elect of the American Board of Surgery. In June 2006 he will assume the role of vice chairman and in 2007 he will become the American Board of Surgery’s chairman.

Flynn, who is also the president of the Alachua County Medical Society, has been with the college since 1984.