Family physician may be nominated for surgeon general
Family physician David Satcher, MD, may soon be nominated as surgeon general and assistant secretary of health.
In late April, the White House announced it would nominate Dr. Satcher for these posts, but at press time, the nomination had not yet been sent to the Senate, which has responsibility for confirming the nomination.
Dr. Satcher has headed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta since 1993. For 11 years before that, he was president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. He chaired the Council on Graduate Medical Education in 1992-93, during which time the council endorsed the goal of having 50 percent of physicians be generalists, a long-time AAFP goal.
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