L. D. Britt, MD, MPH, FACS, a general and acute care surgeon from Norfolk, VA, was installed as the 91st President of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) last night during Convocation ceremonies that preceded the official opening of the College's 2010 Annual Clinical Congress in Washington, DC. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 1989, Dr. Britt is the Brickhouse Professor and Chairman, department of surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, a position he has held since 1999. He is the first African American in the country to have an endowed chair in surgery. Dr... 
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