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'''Susan Blank''', {{MD}}, {{MPH is }}, was the Chairwoman of the [[AAP_Circumcision_Task_Force_2012|2012 AAP Circumcision Task force on CircumcisionForce 2012]]. The Task force released a new policy statement on circumcision on 27 August 27, 2012.

She has had worked at the [https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/about-doh.page New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ] since 1992. She is affiliated with the [[CDC ]] and works at the DOHMH as an assignee from the Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention at the CDC. Currently she is the Director and Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of STD Control.<ref>{{REFweb

|title=Susan Blank, MD, MPHM.D. M.P.H.

}}</ref> ==History==Blank was an Assistant Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene at the time that a ''mohel'' was believed to have infected three infants with [[herpes]] after performing mouth suction on their [[penis]] wounds.<ref>{{REFweb |quote= |url=http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/7/iii.full |title=New York Officials Bar Rabbi from Circumcision Ritual |last= |first= |publisher= |date=2005-02 |accessdate=2019-10-04}}</ref> One of those infants died and another was believed to have brain damage. [[Thomas R. Frieden]] also worked at DOHMH at the time. It appears that Blank helped do research for the letter that Frieden later published as "An Open Letter to the Jewish Community", in response to these events.<ref>{{REFdocument |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009055505/http://www.nyp-rpc.org/pdf/2005_health_alert46.pdf |title=2005 Health Alert #46: Neonatal herpes infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 following circumcision with oral suctioning (metzitzah b’peh) |last=Blank |first=Susan |author-link=Susan Blank |last2=Schillinger |first2=Julia |website=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009055505/http://www.nyp-rpc.org/pdf/2005_health_alert46.pdf |publisher=The City of New York |date=2005-12-13 |accessdate=2019-10-04 |archived=yes}}</ref> ==Chairman of the 2012 AAP Circumcision Committee==She appears to be convinced of the medical advantages of circumcision.

|ref=<ref>{{REFweb |url=http://kunc.org/post/pediatricians-decide-boys-are-better-circumcised-not |title=Pediatricians Decide Boys Are Better Off Circumcised Than Not |website=Community Radio for Northern Colorado |date=2012-08-31 |accessdate=2019-10-04}}</ref>

Blank was Susan Black is an Assistant Commissioner at outstanding example of a Jewish medical doctor who promotes non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys for specious medical reasons. She is a worthy successor to [[Edgar J. Schoen]], M.D.== Fate of the New York City Department 2012 AAP Circumcision Policy Statement ==The 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement received unrelenting critical comment from many sources, because of Health its significant omissions of the [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| function of the foreskin]], [[human rights]] issues, defective [[medical ethics]], inaccurate medical information, and Mental Hygiene at the time that a mohel was believed to have infected three infants with herpes after performing mouth suction on their penis woundsmany other reasons.<refname="doc2013">{{REFweb |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/commentary-on-american-academy-of-pediatrics-2012-circumcision-policy-statement.pdf |title=Commentary on American Academy of Pediatrics 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement |trans-title= |language= |last=Staff |first= |author-link= |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] |website= |date=2013-04 |accessdate=2020-02-15 |format=PDF

}}</ref><ref name="frisch2013"/><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Svoboda |first=J. Steven |init=JS |author-link=J. Steven Svoboda |last2=Van Howe |first2=Robert S. |init2=RS |author2-link=Robert S. Van Howe |etal=no |title=Out of step: fatal flaws in the latest AAP policy report on neonatal circumcision |journal=J Med Eth |location=Published online first |date=2013-03-13 |volume=39 |issue=7 |pages=434-41 |url=httphttps://cidarclaw.org.customers.tigertech.net/wp-content/uploads/Svoboda-Van-Howe-Out-of-Step-Fatal-Flaws-in-AAP..oxfordjournals.-JME-2013.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=23508208 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1136/medethics-2013-101346 |accessdate=2021-07-30}}</ref><ref>{{REFdocument |title=Commentary on American Academy of Pediatrics 2012 Circumcision Policy Statemeni |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/40uploads/2016/708/iiicommentary-on-american-academy-of-pediatrics-2012-circumcision-policy-statement.fullpdf |titlecontribution=New York Officials Bar Rabbi from Circumcision Ritual

|publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] |format=PDF |date=2005/022013-04-01 |accessdate=20192021-1007-0430}}</ref> One <ref>{{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=R |author-link=Robert Darby |etal=no |title=Risks, Benefits, Complications and Harms: Neglected Factors in the Current Debate on Non-Therapeutic Circumcision |journal=Kennedy Institute of those infants died and another was believed to have brain damageEthics Journal |location= |date=2015-04 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=1-34 |url=https://kiej. [[Thomas Rgeorgetown. Frieden]] also worked at DOHMH at the timeedu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/03_25. It appears that Blank helped do research for the letter that Frieden later published as "An Open Letter to the Jewish Community", in response to these events1darby.<ref>{{REFwebpdf |archived=

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