Glen Solomon elected to the Association of Professors of Medicine Council

Glen Solomon is professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and professor and interim chair of the Department of Neurology at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.

Glen Solomon is professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and professor and interim chair of the Department of Neurology at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.

Glen Solomon, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and professor and interim chair of the Department of Neurology at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, has been elected to the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) Council as a member at-large. He will begin his three-year term July 1.

APM is the organization of departments of internal medicine represented by chairs and appointed leaders at medical schools and affiliated teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada.

Solomon has been professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Wright State since June 2008 and was appointed interim chair of the Department of Neurology in April 2015.

From 2003 to 2008, Solomon was chair of the Department of Medicine and internal medicine residency program director at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. During that time, he was also professor and vice chair of medicine at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago.

Solomon spent five years as senior medical director in Medical and Scientific Affairs at Merck and Co. Inc. From 1988 to 1997, he directed the headache clinic and headache medicine fellowship program at the Cleveland Clinic.

Solomon received his undergraduate education at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He earned his medical degree at Rush Medical College in Chicago, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Solomon completed his residency in internal medicine at Wright-Patterson Medical Center. In 1995, he completed the Executive Program in Practice Management at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is board certified in internal medicine and in headache medicine.

He is the coauthor of two textbooks on headache medicine, “Clinician’s Manual on Migraine” and “Diamond and Dalessio’s The Practicing Physician’s Approach to Headache.” He has also authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and 35 book chapters on the subject of headache and migraine.

Professional activities include fellowships in the American College of Physicians and the American Headache Society. He is also a member of the International Headache Society, Association of Professors of Medicine, Association of Chairs and Chiefs of Medicine (president 2010-11) and the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine.

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