Kenneth M. Slaw, Ph.D. '87 Ed.Psych., has been named executive director of the Society for Vascular Surgery, a nonprofit medical society made up of specialty-trained vascular surgeons.
According to an SVS press release, Slaw has held key senior staff posts at the society for the last 28 years. Most recently he served as director of membership and director of strategic planning at the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Slaw was one of six Education graduates to be recognized in 2015 with the College's Distinguished Alumni Award. His fields of concentration include adult education, education administration, and children with special learning and health needs.
He spent six years engaged in consulting work, working with state departments of mental health and developmental disabilities to monitor patient populations for early onset psychotropic medication side effects such as tardive dyskinesia.
Slaw has also helped put policies and care systems in place to remove children and young adults from medication prior to developing long-term, irreversible neurologic damage.
View the full press release.
