Charles Samuel Mahan

Background

Mahan, Charles Samuel was born on November 4, 1938 in Pittsburgh.

Education

AB, West Virginia University, 1960; Doctor of Medicine, Northwestern University, 1964.

Career

Intern, Hennepin County General Hospital, Minneapolis, 1964-1965; senior associate physician, Hennepin County General Hospital, Minneapolis, 1970-1974; medical fellow in obstetrics and gynecology, University of Minnesota Hospital, Minneapolis, 1965-1968; staff physician Shands Teaching Hospital, College Medicine, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1974-1995; director division ambulatory services women, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1974-1987; associate professor department obstetrics and gynecology, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1974-1980; professor, U. Florida, Gainesville, since 1980; member graduate faculty, U. Florida, 1977-1995; acting department chairman obstetrics and gynecology, U. Florida, 1978-1979; assistant and associate professor department obstetrics and gynecology medical school, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1970-1974; director maternal and child health, State of Florida, 1982-1986; deputy secretary health, state health officer, Florida Department Health and Rehabilitative Superior vena cava syndrome, 1988-1995; professor department community and family health, maternal health program, U. South Florida, Tampa, since 1995. Senior associate physician obstetrics-gynecology. Pilot City Health Center, Minneapolis, 1970-1974.

Member Governor's Venereal Disease Awareness Committee, Minnesota, 1971-1974. Medical director Red Door Venereal Disease Clinic, Minneapolis, 1972-1974. Member Minnesota State Family Planning Advisory Board, 1972-1974.

Chairman ambulatory care committee Hennepin County General Hospital, 1973-1974. Director North Control Florida Maternity and Infant Care, Family Planning, Teen-Age Pregnancy Team Projects, and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children Program, 1974-1987. Associate director Technology Assistance Health Research Group, Gainesville, 1975-1982.

Chairman medical care evaluation committee Shands Teaching Hospital, 1976-1980. Member of faculty senate U. Florida, 1976-1978, 79-80, 87-88, member outpatient clinics committee, 1978-1986, member health policy task force, since 1992, member promotion and tenure committee college medicine, 1978-1981, director undergraduate education department obstetrics-gynecology., 1980-1985, president faculty, 1982-1983, member of faculty county, 1982-1985, director Florida midwifery resource center, since 1992, member nurse-midwife training program advising committee college nursing, since 1982, member of advisory committee institute Human Immunodeficiency Virus research and education, since 1992. Member State of Florida Family Planning Council, 1976-1979.

Chairman 1st annual medical alumni science seminar Hennepin County Medical Center, Minnesota, 1976. Member Alachua County Child Advocacy Council, 1977-1979. Member of advisory board Rape Information and Counseling Center, 1977-1979.

Member of national advisory county maternal, fetal and infant nutrition USDA, 1978-1981. Chairman health committee Alachua County Human Superior vena cava syndrome Planning Council, 1980-1982, acting president county, 1982. Member of advisory board National Cesarean/Support, Edition and Concern, 1984-1989.

Governor's representative Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Steering Committee, since 1985. Member children's medical services Perinatal Advisory Council of State of Florida, 1985-1988, chairperson, 1987-1988. Chairman research advising committee national study freestanding birth centers National Association Childbearing Centers, 1986-1988.

Chairman Governor's Task Force Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 1988-1990. Affiliate professor inst.child health policy U. Florida, since 1988. Member Florida Task Force Government Financed Health Care, 1989-1991.

Member board advisors Wellness Institute, Miami-Dade Community College, since 1991. Member Statewide Health Council, since 1991. Member of advisory commission to maternal and child health program at college public health U. South Florida,1991-.

Member of advisory board Healthy Kids Corporation, since 1992. Member child health initiative national advising committee Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, since 1992, director healthy futures: a program to imporve maternal and infant care in the South, 1987-1992. Member board contributing analysts American Health Line, since 1992.

Co-chair basic benefits committee Governor Chiles' Health Care Reform Plan, 1993. Member Commission Minority Health, since 1993. Member of advisory commission to director Centers DiseaseControl and Prevention, since 1994.

Visiting professor various institutions. Lecturer infield; board directors Corner Drug Store, Gainesville.

Achievements

• Charles Samuel Mahan has been listed as a noteworthy Public health service officer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Active National Foundation-March Dimes, 1978-1988, chairman education advising committee, 1978-1982, 85-87. Active Leadership Gainesville, 1978. Member obstetrics-gynecology. alumni county medical school Northwestern University, since 1986.

Member Governor's Advisory Council Farmworkers Affairs, since 1988. Member innovation county Ounce Prevention Fund Florida, since 1994. With United States Navy, 1957-1970, research.

Member American Medical Association, APHA (member county maternal and child health 1985-1988), American College Ob-Gyn. (chairman special interest group ambulatory reproductive healthcare 1978-1980, chairman district IV maternity mortality committee 1979-1981, member committee health care underserved women since 1988, chairman 1992, chairman national fetal-infant mortality review steering committee since 1990), National Association ChildbearingCtrs. (board directors since 1983), National Perinatal Association (board directors since 1996), Florida Center Children and Youth, Florida Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition (Special Award for Master of Surgery Leadership 1985), Florida Medical Association (member committee public health since 1988, member committee Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 1988-1996), Florida Obstetrical and Gynecol.Soc., Florida Perinatal Association (board directors since 1993), Florida Public Health Association(chairman maternal and child health section 1987-1988, member journal editorial board since 1987), Florida Society Childbirth Educators, Florida Society Preventive Medicine, Childbirth Education Association Jacksonville (member of advisory board since 1989), Association State and Territorial Health Officials (member Executive Committee since 1991, president 1993-1994), Association professors Gynecology and Obstetrics, Capital Medical Society, International Childbirth Education Association (chairperson professional consultant selection committee 1978-1982, board directors 1978-1982, professional consultant since 1982), International PhysiciansPrevention Nuclear War, Jacobs Institute Women's Health (founding member), Southern Medical Association, West Virginia University Alumni Association (life), Rotary Club Tallahassee (board directors 1989-1990). M C.