Dr. Sidney Shindell, of Hartford, Conn,, has be appointed medical director of the Joint Distribution Committee, It was announced today by Edward M.Warburg, chairman of the JDC.
Dr.Shindell, who comes to JDC from his post as medical director of the Connecticut Commission on the Care and Treatment of the Chronically Ill, Aged and Infirm, replaces Dr. William M.Schmidt, who has resigned to re-join the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health as Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health. The Joint Distribution Committee currently maintains health and welfare programs in some 25 countries.
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