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News from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Former
Surgeon-General David Satcher Visits UAMS
APRIL 3, 2003
| Former U.S. Surgeon-General David
Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., stopped by the
University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences (UAMS) today to visit the Donald
W. Reynolds Center on Aging.
Dean E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.,
of the UAMS College of Medicine invited
General Satcher to include UAMS on a visit
to Arkansas. General Satcher spoke at Pine
Bluff last night. He met today with Dean
Reece; David A. Lipschitz, M.D., Ph.D.,
professor and chair of the Donald W.
Reynolds Department of Geriatrics in the
College of Medicine; and Jeanne Wei, M.D.,
Ph.D., professor and executive vice chair
of the geriatrics department.
General Satcher is now director of the National
Center for Primary Care at Morehouse
School of Medicine in Atlanta. He was the
16th surgeon general of the United States.
He was sworn in on February 13, 1998, and
served a 4-year term.
Dr. Satcher served simultaneously in the
positions of surgeon general and assistant
secretary for health in the federal
Department of Health and Human Services
from February 1998 through January 2001.
He also held the posts of director of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and administrator of the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry from 1993
to 1998.
He is a former Robert Wood Johnson
Clinical Scholar and Macy Faculty Fellow.
He is the recipient of many honorary
degrees and numerous distinguished honors,
including top awards from the American
Medical Association, the American College
of Physicians, the American Academy of
Family Physicians, and Ebony magazine. In
1995, he received the Breslow Award in
Public Health and in 1997 the New York
Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement
Award. Earlier this year, he received the
Bennie Mays Trailblazer Award and the
Jimmy and Roslyn Carter Award for
Humanitarian Contributions to the Health
of Humankind from the National Foundation
for Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Satcher graduated from Morehouse
College in Atlanta in 1963 and was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.D.
and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve
University in 1970 with election to Alpha
Omega Alpha Honor Society. He did
residency/fellowship training at Strong
Memorial Hospital, University of
Rochester, UCLA, and King-Drew. He is a
fellow of the American Academy of Family
Physicians, the American College of
Preventive Medicine, and the American
College of Physicians.
Born in Anniston, Alabama, on March 2,
1941, Dr. Satcher and his wife, Nola, have
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Left
to right: Dean E. Albert Reece, Dr. Jeanne Wei,
General Satcher, and Dr. Lipschitz (Marsha
Hines)
Click on photo for larger view.
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Links on This Page
Donald W. Reynolds Center on
Aging: http://centeronaging.uams.edu/
National Center for
Primary Care: http://www.msm.edu/ncpc/
Go Where They Are: http://www.uams.edu/today/2002/103102/elders.htm
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