Herbert H. Pomerance, M.D.

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Herbert H. Pomerance, M.D., F.A.A.P. is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, and served as Interim Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics in 1990 and 1991. Prior to moving to Tampa, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston Division. He is Emeritus Professor at West Virginia University.

Born in New York City in 1918, Dr. Pomerance is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, 1941. He did most of his training in pediatrics in New York City, and was in practice there for almost 22 years. He was chairman of state committees for the American Academy of Pediatrics in New York before moving to Charleston in 1970 to become Director of Pediatrics at the Memorial Hospital and then Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, WVU School of Medicine/Charleston. In this position, he re-started a residency training program which has served the area well since. He served on the Academic Standards Committee for the WVU School of Medicine and served six years as Chapter President of the West Virginia Chapter of the AAP. He also served for four years on the AAP Committee on Standards of Child Health Care, and six years on the Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine. He was a member of the 5-man Task Force of the academy which designed and started the Chapter Chairmen=s (Presidents=) Forum. He has also served as a member of the AAP Committee on Communications. In Tampa, he has been Chairman of the Communications Committee for the Florida Chapter AAP and is Editor of the Chapter's Newsletter, "The Florida Pediatrician". He has written a newspaper column ("Your Child's Health") for the Tampa Tribune and has appeared on television programs on many occasions, in both West Virginia and Florida.

His major area of interest in clinical pediatrics is in the normal growth of infants and children. He published "Growth Standards in Children" in 1979, as well as a number of other publications, as a result of 21 years of research effort while in clinical practice. He continues to publish, and currently is involved in a series of clinico-pathologic conferences, presented at Grand Rounds quarterly, each of which is published. He is still active clinically, being responsible for two clinics for medically-indigent children, and teaches students at these clinics. He also provides lectures for residents and students.