Eddo de Lang, MD
Council - 1st Term
2025 - 2027

I have been a Family Physician since 1980. My first Residency was in the Netherlands where I was first introduced to Balint in the late 1970’s. I started work as a Family Physician when I was drafted to serve in the Royal Dutch Air Force. After three years living and working in Germany as the Squadron physician for the Dutch Air Force military and their families, I worked about four years in an outpatient and inpatient setting in the Netherlands.

In my early 30’s I moved to the United States to get married with my American wife. My wife Terry (a pediatrician) and I worked most of our years together in a private practice in a small town in Upstate New York. The last four years before retirement I became a Rural Family Medicine Program Director, the rural track of the Family Medicine Residency of the University at Buffalo. I retired in mid 2020 from gainful employment, but have for the last several years been engaged in volunteer activities.

I became a credentialed Balint Group Leader a few years ago. I am currently leading a Family Medicine Resident Balint Group in Washington, DC.  Until recently I very much enjoyed practicing medicine every week in a local Free Clinic, until it had to close due to lack of funding. Over the past year, I have enjoyed teaching some Resident didactics and setting up a structure for a scholarly activities program in a new local Family Medicine Residency Program.

I am now planning to spend more time on my activities in the ABS as member of the Council, the Intensives Committee and Scholarly Activities Committee. I very much enjoy interacting with the Balint Family and wish that I had discovered the ABS decades ago.