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Show Dr. Kesler Returns . To Health Position . Appointment of Joseph P. Kesler, M.D., as Director, Division Divi-sion of Children's Services in the State Department of Health was announced by ,G. D. Carlyle Thompson, M.D., Director of Public Health today. The designation desig-nation of Dr. Kesler fills one of the most important posts in the Department, vacant since last June and covered in the interim in-terim by Garth Myers, M.D., on a part-time basis. Dr. Myers who is a private practitioner in Salt Lake City, will continue with the Department as a consultant in pediatric neurology. Dr. Kesler, active in important public health programs for many years, is no stranger to Utah's health service. He returns to a post in the State Department of Health similar to that occupied by him during the period 1950-1958. 1950-1958. In the interim, he was Assistant As-sistant Research Professor and Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, Medi-cine, University of Utah and is now Acting Director, Division of Rehabilitation in the University. Dr. Kesler, a native of Canada, spent his boyhood in Utah, attended at-tended Davis High School at jvaysvme, ana received nis medical medi-cal education at the University of Utah and the University of Oregon. A Master of Public Health (Harvard, 1957), Dr. Kesler Kes-ler is certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He lives at 671 Aloha Road, Salt Lake City with his wife, the former Bonnie Adams and children." "Dr. Kesler's interest, professional profes-sional training and knowledge of children's health problems in this state combine to not only amply qualify him but to make it most fortunate for the Department that his services can be obtained," ob-tained," Public Health Director Thompson said in recommending Dr. Kesler: ; "Children's services are in great need of reorganizing and rebuilding; re-building; and with the appointment appoint-ment of Dr. Kesler, who will assume as-sume his responsibilities early in September, I am confident this ; vitally important program will be given new impetus and significant signif-icant direction." |