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Rank. Vice Admiral. Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born Minnie Lee Jones; August 13, 1933) is an American pediatrician and public health administrator who served as Surgeon General of the United States from 1993 to 1994. A vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, she was the second woman, second person of color, and first African ...
Spouse (s) Kory G. Cornum. Rhonda L. Cornum (born October 31, 1954) is a retired United States Army officer and the Director of Health Strategy for TechWerks. [2] She is a surgeon, board-certified in urology, having earned a doctorate in biochemistry and nutrition from Cornell University. Cornum worked at Letterman Army Institute of Research at ...
Nadja Yudith West (née Grammer; March 20, 1961) [ 2 ] is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and the 44th Surgeon General of the United States Army and former Commanding General of the United States Army Medical Command. West, a physician, was the first black Army Surgeon General, and was the first black female active-duty major ...
Patricia D. Horoho (née Dallas; born March 21, 1960) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 43rd Surgeon General of the United States Army and Commanding General of the United States Army Medical Command. She was the second female Nurse Corps officer to hold the title of Army surgeon general but the first to be ...
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 ...
Andrea A. Hayes Dixon (born 1965) is an American surgeon. She was the first pediatric surgeon to perform a high-risk, life-saving procedure in children with a rare form of cancer and developed the first orthotropic xenograft model of metastatic Ewing's sarcoma. In 2002, she became the first African American female pediatric surgeon board ...
The original New York Cancer Hospital [2] built between 1884 and 1886, now housing, at 455 Central Park West and 106th Street in Manhattan. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in Manhattan in New York City. MSKCC is one of 72 National Cancer Institute – designated Comprehensive ...
This is a list of female United States military generals and flag officers, that are either currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, or are retired. They are listed under their respective service branches, which make up the Department of Defense , with the exception of the Coast Guard, which is part of Homeland Security .