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Albert Whiggs Easmon

Albert Whiggs Easmon was the younger half brother of Dr. John Farrell Easmon, who was promoted to the position of Chief Medical Officer of the Gold Coast.


British Pregnancy Advisory Service

In late 2004, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph presented a video to the British government (Health Secretary Dr John Reid and Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson) showing BPAS counsellors referring women whose pregnancies were too advanced for legal abortions in Britain (past 24 weeks) to a clinic in Barcelona, Spain.

Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System

Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System is a book about preventable medical errors written by Sanjaya Kumar, president and chief medical officer of Quantros, Milpitas, California.

John Farrell Easmon

John Farrell Easmon, M.R.C.S. L.M., L.K.Q.C.P., M.D., CMO, (June 30, 1856-June 9, 1900) was a prominent Sierra Leonean Creole doctor in the British Gold Coast who served as Chief Medical Officer during the 1890s.


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Budgett

Richard Budgett (born 1959), British Olympic rower (Gold Medal, Coxed Fours, 1984) and chief medical officer to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to be held in London.

Charles Odamtten Easmon

In 1964, Kwame Nkrumah appointed Easmon as the first Chief Medical Officer of Ghana.

Clement Finley

In 1831 he was ordered to Fort Howard, Wisconsin, and while on this duty he was detached for service as chief medical officer (with rank of major) of the forces operating under General Winfield Scott in the Black Hawk War of 1832.

Esomeprazole

Many noted health professionals, including Dr. Otis Brawley (author of "How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick In America", and currently (as of August 2012) both chief medical officer and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society), have expressed the view that this improvement in efficacy is due to the dose of esomeprazole recommended for therapy rather than any inherent superiority of esomeprazole.

Friends Of Science In Medicine

In September 2012, FSM was involved in lobbying the Australian Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, to expand the chief medical officer's study into complimentary medicine to include chiropractic and acupuncture.

Geskel Saloman

Geskel Saloman (born 1 April 1821 in Tønder - July 5, 1902 in Båstad) was a Danish–Swedish portrait and genre painter, brother of Siegfried Saloman and chief medical officer for the Danish army Nota Saloman.

Karen DeSalvo

Her immediate predecessor was ONC Chief Medical Officer Jacob Reider who served on an acting basis for roughly three months following the resignation of Farzad Mostashari who resigned in October, 2013.

Karl Bowman

During his career, Bowman was the chief medical officer at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital; an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (1921–1936); the chief of psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital (1936–1941); a professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical College (1936–1941); the first chairman and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (1941–1956); and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital

In August 2012, MLK-LA's Board appointed Elaine Batchlor, a physician and former Chief Medical Officer for L.A. Care Health Plan, as the hospital's first Chief Executive Officer.

Peter Gregory

Gregory was the first person to be appointed to the role of chief medical officer by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2002.

Smoking ban in England

It was reported on 24 November that Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson nearly quit over the partial ban, but decided to stay to champion a total ban.

Stephen Ondra

Before joining HCSC in April 2013, Dr. Ondra was Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Tom George Longstaff

After the war, he took part in an Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen in 1921 and was chief medical officer and naturalist on the British Mount Everest Expedition of 1922.

Valley State Prison

Ted Koppel interviewed many staff, including Dr. Anthony DiDomenico, the chief medical officer of VSPW, in October 1999 for series of episodes of Nightline.