On July 4, 2021, Kusum Punjabi, MD, MBA, FACEP, was unanimously elected Chair of the Board of Trustees for the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI). She is the youngest physician ever to hold the position and is the first AAPI Board Chair to have attended medical school in the United States.
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ACEP Now: Vol 40 – No 08 – August 2021Dr. Punjabi, an emergency physician and associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New
Brunswick, New Jersey, has served in many board positions for AAPI in preparation for this role. She said her goal is to develop long-lasting programs that promote professionalism, unity, mentorship, and inclusivity.
Founded in 1982, AAPI represents more than 80,000 practicing physicians and more than 40,000 medical students, residents, and fellows in the United States.
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