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Rathore elected to Florida Medical Association’s Board of Governors

Mobeen Rathore, MD, professor and associate chair of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville, has been elected to the Florida Medical Association’s Board of Governors for a three-year term. 

FMA represents more than 20,000 physicians in Florida on issues of legislative, regulatory, economic, educational and public health significance. Rathore will be the board’s District B representative, serving the five Northeast Florida counties of Duval, Clay, Nassau, St. Johns and Putnam.

Rathore is chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases and immunology and director of the UF Center for HIV/AIDS Research, Education and Service (UF CARES) at UF COMJ. He started the first pediatric infectious diseases training program in Florida and continues to educate fellows locally and across the country. He is also co-director of the Community Engagement Research Program for the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute

In January, Rathore will begin a six-year term on the sub-board of pediatric infectious diseases for the American Board of Pediatrics, which certifies physicians in more than 20 specialties.

He is a past president of the Duval County Medical Society and the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of the academy’s Committee on Infectious Diseases and the Executive Committee of the Provisional Section of International Medical Graduates. Rathore also serves on the editorial board of Pediatrics in Review, an official journal of the academy.

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Mobeen H. Rathore, MBBS (MD), CPE, FACPE, FIDSA, FAAP

Mobeen H. Rathore, MBBS (MD), CPE, FACPE, FIDSA, FAAP

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Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Director, UF Center for HIV/AIDS Research, Education and Service (UF CARES)