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News!  A former medic (now trauma surgeon)
has been named as the new surgeon general!

Sue Roundy

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 Subject: 2 medical posts filled
    Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:49:33 -0600
    From: "ecthompson" <ecthompson@tyler.net>
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>From Cnn

Bush introduces surgeon general, NIH nominees

March 26, 2002 Posted: 3:39 PM EST (2039 GMT)

>From John King
CNN Washington

WASHINGTON (CNN) --President Bush introduced his
choices for two top federal public health posts
Tuesday at the White House.

Bush tapped Dr. Elias Zerhouni, a native of
Algeria who is executive vice dean of the Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine, as director of the
National Institutes of Health, and Arizona trauma
surgeon Richard Carmona, winner of a national "Top
Cop" award, as surgeon general.

Both nominations will require Senate
confirmation.

NIH, the nation's premier biomedical research
agency with more than 15,000 employees, has been
without a director since the departure of Harold
Varmus two years ago. Bush has proposed increasing
the agency's budget to $27 billion this year.

The surgeon general's post became open in February
when David Satcher's term expired and he stepped
down to take a top post at Morehouse School of
Medicine in Atlanta.

Two other upper-level public health positions
remain to be filled -- the top Food and Drug
Administration spot is vacant and Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention director Jeffrey
Koplan has announced that he will leave in April.

Carmona, who serves as department surgeon and SWAT
team leader for the Pima County Sheriff's
Department, was honored in 2000 as one of the
nation's "Top Cops" by the National Association of
Police Organizations after being involved in a
September 1999 shootout.

In that incident, Carmona stopped at the scene of
a traffic accident in Tucson, Arizona, and was
fired upon by one of the drivers, who was
assaulting a woman. Carmona fired back, fatally
wounding the man, who turned out to be a suspect
in the stabbing death of his father.

In the shootout, Carmona's scalp was grazed by a
bullet in the same place he had been wounded while
in Vietnam, where he earned a Bronze Star, a
Purple Heart and a Combat Medical badge while
serving as a Green Beret.

Carmona, 52, received his medical degree from the
University of California at San Francisco. He is a
clinical professor of surgery, public health and
family and community medicine at the University of
Arizona and chairman of the Arizona Southern
Regional Emergency Medical System. He founded the
first trauma care system in southern Arizona.

White House officials said he wants to make drug
and alcohol abuse a major focus of his tenure as
surgeon general.

Zerhouni, 50, received his medical degree from the
University of Algiers School of Medicine in 1975.
He was with Johns Hopkins from 1978 to 1981 as an
instructor and assistant professor, then joined
Eastern Virginia Medical School before returning
to Johns Hopkins in 1985, as co-director of the
divisions of computed tomography and magnetic
resonance imaging . He is a professor of radiology
and biomedical engineering.

He is radiologist in chief at Johns Hopkins
Hospital. He has received five patents, including
one for the Mammotome, a minimally invasive breast
biopsy device, and has founded or co-founded five
companies.

E

Errington C. Thompson, MD, FACS

Trauma Surgeon

Trinity Mother Frances Hospital

ecthompson@tyler.net

Don't think you are

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style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><!-- /date --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!-- ap --><!--===========IMAGE============--><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><font size=-2>From
John King</font></font></font></span></span><span 
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
<br><span class=small1><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><font size=-2>CNN
Washington</font></font></font></span></span><span 
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><b><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=-1>WASHINGTON
(CNN) --</span><span 
style='color:black'><span style='font-weight:bold'></font></font>President
Bush introduced his choices for two top federal public health posts Tuesday
at the White House.</font></b></span><o:p></o:p></span>

Bush
tapped Dr. Elias Zerhouni, a native of Algeria who is executive vice dean
of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as director of the National Institutes
of Health, and Arizona trauma surgeon Richard Carmona, winner of a national
"Top Cop" award, as surgeon general.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Both
nominations will require Senate confirmation.&nbsp;</font></font></font><o:p></o:p></span>

NIH,
the nation's premier biomedical research agency with more than 15,000 employees,
has been without a director since the departure of Harold Varmus two years
ago. Bush has proposed increasing the agency's budget to $27 billion this
year.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>The
surgeon general's post became open in February when David Satcher's term
expired and he stepped down to take a top post at Morehouse School of Medicine
in Atlanta.&nbsp;</font></font></font><o:p></o:p></span>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Two
other upper-level public health positions remain to be filled -- the top
Food and Drug Administration spot is vacant and Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention director Jeffrey Koplan has announced that he will leave
in April.&nbsp;</font></font></font><o:p></o:p></span>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Carmona,
who serves as department surgeon and SWAT team leader for the Pima County
Sheriff's Department, was honored in 2000 as one of the nation's "Top Cops"
by the National Association of Police Organizations after being involved
in a September 1999 shootout.&nbsp;</font></font></font><o:p></o:p></span>

In
that incident, Carmona stopped at the scene of a traffic accident in Tucson,
Arizona, and was fired upon by one of the drivers, who was assaulting a
woman. Carmona fired back, fatally wounding the man, who turned out to
be a suspect in the stabbing death of his father.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>In
the shootout, Carmona's scalp was grazed by a bullet in the same place
he had been wounded while in Vietnam, where he earned a Bronze Star, a
Purple Heart and a Combat Medical badge while serving as a Green Beret.&nbsp;</font></font></font><o:p></o:p></span>

Carmona,
52, received his medical degree from the University of California at San
Francisco. He is a clinical professor of surgery, public health and family
and community medicine at the University of Arizona and chairman of the
Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System. He founded the first
trauma care system in southern Arizona.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>White
House officials said he wants to make drug and alcohol abuse a major focus
of his tenure as surgeon general.&nbsp;</font></font></font><o:p></o:p></span>

Zerhouni,
50, received his medical degree from the University of Algiers School of
Medicine in 1975. He was with Johns Hopkins from 1978 to 1981 as an instructor
and assistant professor, then joined Eastern Virginia Medical School before
returning to Johns Hopkins in 1985, as co-director of the divisions of
computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging . He is a professor
of radiology and biomedical engineering.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>

He
is radiologist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has received five
patents, including one for the Mammotome, a minimally invasive breast biopsy
device, and has founded or co-founded five companies.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>

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