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Press release from Ottumwa Regional Health Center

(OTTUMWA, Iowa) - Governor Culver has re-appointed three members and appointed a new member to the Iowa Board of Medicine.  Tom Drew, Jeffrey Snyder, M.D., and Colleen Stockdale, M.D., were all reappointed to their second term on the Board.  Joyce Vista-Wayne, M.D., of Ottumwa, was appointed to the Board to fill the seat being vacated by Yasyn Lee, M.D., Dubuque.  Joyce Vista-Wayne, a psychiatrist, is chairperson of the Iowa Physician Health Committee.  The Board appointees  will begin their three-year terms effective May 1, pending Senate confirmation.

          The Board safeguards the public health, safety and  welfare by:

• licensing qualified physicians and acupuncturists;  
  
• investigating complaints against physicians and acupuncturists, establishing peer review committees, taking corrective action, and monitoring those under board order;  
• operating a program for physicians and acupuncturists with an impairment;  
  
• defining the scope of medical and acupuncture practice;  
  
• working cooperatively with certain other agencies, e.g., Board of Physician Assistants, Board of Pharmacy; and  
  
• operating within specified limitations, e.g., public meetings law, public records law, and the waiver and variance law.