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Nadine Burke Harris (born October 5, 1975) is a Canadian-American pediatrician who was the Surgeon General of California between 2019 and 2022; she is the first person appointed to that position. [ 1 ][ 2 ] She is known for linking adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress with harmful effects to health later in life. [ 3 ]
Vivek Hallegere Murthy (born July 10, 1977) is a British-American physician and a vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who has served as the 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States under Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. [ 1 ]
February 2, 2022 at 9:35 AM. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, shown at her home in San Francisco, became the state's first surgeon general in 2019. (Paul Kuroda / For The Times) California's top physician ...
Preceded by. Nadine Burke Harris. Personal details. Education. University of Southern California (BS, MD) University of California, Los Angeles (MPH) University of California, Irvine (MBA) Diana Ramos is an American obstetrician and gynecologist who was appointed to serve as the Surgeon General of California by Governor Gavin Newsom.
The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. The surgeon general's office and staff are known as the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG), which is ...
Jerome Michael Adams[3] (born September 22, 1974) is an American anesthesiologist and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 20th surgeon general of the United States from September 5, 2017, until January 20, 2021. Prior to becoming Surgeon General, he served as the Indiana state health ...
Contents. Rachel Levine. Rachel Leland Levine (/ ləˈviːn /; born October 28, 1957) [ 1 ] is an American pediatrician who has served as the United States Assistant Secretary for Health since March 26, 2021. [ 2 ] She is also an admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Levine is a professor of pediatrics and ...
The surgeon general is also a member of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. From 1965 to 2019, the surgeon general was appointed as a three-star vice admiral, until the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 struck the surgeon general's statutory rank. [1] The House's version of the 2023 NDAA considered advancing the ...