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Ezra C. Davidson, Jr., M.D.
Ezra C. Davidson, Jr., M.D. is Associate Dean, Primary Care, and Professor
(past chairman 1971-96), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Charles
R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Currently, he also is professor
in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UCLA. He was chief-of-staff, Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles
(1971-1996). In this position in 1971 he developed a new and subsequently
nationally-recognized, full-service academic department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology.
Dr. Davidson received his B.S. cum laude from Morehouse College in Atlanta,
Georgia, and M.D. from Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee,
as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. His residency
training was at Harlem Hospital and his fellowship in blood coagulation
was at Columbia University, both in New York City.
His major organizational responsibilities have included President, American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Los Angeles Obstetrical and
Gynecological Society; Chairman, Obstetrical and Gynecological Assembly
of Southern California; Chairman, Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology
National Medical Association (NMA); Chair, Board of Trustees, NMA; President
of the Association Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics; President,
Golden State Medical Association (Chapter, NMA); President, North American
Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology ; Co-Chair Board of Directors,
National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction(NABER); And most recently,
President of the Association of Academic Minority Physicians.
His present responsibilities include Chair, Blue Shield of California
Foundation Board of Trustees, Member of Council, Association of Academic
Minority Physicians, and member Board of Governors, Jacobs Institute of
Women's Health; Board of Directors, The California Wellness Foundation
(Chair 1998-2000); Board of Directors, Children’s’ Bureau
of Southern California (President 1999-2002); Member Board The Pacific
Center for Law and Ethics, School of Law, University of Southern California;
Member; Board of Directors, Blue Shield of California and Chair the California
Technology Assessment Forum.
Dr. Davidson has chaired the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant
Mortality (US Department of Health and Human Services) and the Advisory
Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs of the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA). He served on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee
to the Director and the Advisory Committee on Clinical Research. He Co-Chaired the NIH Work Group to Develop Guidelines for Federal Funding for
Human Embryonic Pluripotent Stem Cell Research. He was a member of the
Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) and past-chair of the Board
of Directors for the California Wellness Foundation. He has been elected
to the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame, Fellowship ad eundem,
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
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