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Candidate pledges full support for medical school

By Bobby Burns | Monday, April 7, 2008, 08:52 PM

State Senator Walter Dalton, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, toured ECU’s Brody School of Medicine today. He was joined on the tour by former State Senator Tom Taft and ECU Board of Trustees Member David Brody. After touring the Family Practice Center Dalton called for funding a new family practice facility to replace the outdated and inadequate facility.

“ECU is providing a vital service to our state, especially rural and Eastern North Carolina,” Dalton said in a news release. “Brody School of Medicine consistently ranks as one of the best medical schools for Primary and Family Care in the nation. I strongly believe we should ensure that ECU continues to provide the best training and care for Eastern North Carolina and a new family practice center will help facilitate those goals.”

Dalton, who currently chairs the appropriations committee in the Senate, also cited the need to fully fund the remaining portion of ECU’s new dental school. He was on hand for the school’s groundbreaking in late February.

“Brody has been fulfilling its mission to bring more doctors and better health care to rural North Carolina and the dental school will soon continue that tradition by bringing more dentists to rural areas that have no dentists or are underserved,” Dalton said. “I have been very supportive of ECU in the state Senate and I will continue to support Brody School of Medicine and the ECU dental school as lieutenant governor.”

Dalton also expressed support for a decision by the UNC Board of Governors to expand the size of entering medical school classes at both Brody and UNC-Chapel Hill.

“We must ensure that as class sizes expand at our medical schools the state follows suit and supports the increase through additional funding and bigger, better, and modern facilities,” Dalton said.

For more information about Senator Dalton and his campaign, visit www.walterdalton.org.

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