Moreover, each branch of the American military services has its own surgeon general, with more combat-related responsibilities and experience, hence Surgeon General of the United States Army, Surgeon General of the United States Navy, and Surgeon General of the United States Air Force.
•
Thus, in the United States, the chief public health officer is the Surgeon General of the United States and each state has its own State Surgeon General.
The Surgeon General is the overall head of the Commissioned Corps, a 6,500-member cadre of health professionals who are on call 24 hours a day, and can be dispatched by the Secretary of HHS or the Assistant Secretary for Health in the event of a public health emergency.
General Electric | General | General Motors | Attorney General | General Hospital | Brigadier General | Governor General of Canada | Governor-General | Massachusetts General Hospital | surgeon | general | United States Attorney General | general election | General Mills | brigadier general | Brigadier general (United States) | General Dynamics | Governor General | New Jersey General Assembly | United Kingdom general election, 2010 | Attorney General for England and Wales | United Nations General Assembly | United Kingdom general election, 1997 | Ontario general election, 1995 | Governor-General of Australia | GNU General Public License | General practitioner | Secretary-General | general manager | General officer |
A native of Greensboro, Alabama, Amelia was the daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle, the wife of Pennsylvania-born Confederate general Josiah Gorgas and the mother of Surgeon General William C. Gorgas.
In 1964, Said came into public limelight when he gave rogue criticism to Lieutenant-General Vajid Burkie, then-Surgeon General of Army Medical Corps and then high profile officer leading the Ministry of Health under the government of Field Marshal Ayub Khan.
The history of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) dates back to 1612 when, on the formation of the East India Company, the Company appointed John Woodall as their first Surgeon General.
He later studied medicine with Surgeon General Thomas Harris of the United States Navy, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838.
The Knickerbocker Greys was founded by Mrs. Augusta Lawler Stacey Curtis, the wife of Dr. Edward Curtis, a noted New York physician who served on the staff of the Surgeon General of the Union Army, and assisted in the autopsy on the body of President Abraham Lincoln.
Schenck, a member of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, introduced a bill in 1957 that would have prohibited the sale of vehicles discharging hydrocarbons in levels found dangerous by the Surgeon General.
During the encampment, the Quaker Manor House served as the headquarters for Washington's Surgeon General, John Cochran.
In 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a report on smoking and health saying that tobacco causes lung cancer and is a main contributor to bronchitis.
One of these subjects, Cleveland Press science writer David Deitz, was on the National Reserve Council and was a consultant to the surgeon general.
William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918).
During a visit by William Dameshek, then a leader in United States hemotology, Crosby so impressed Dameshek in his handling of hematologic patients that the latter contacted the then Surgeon General to request that Crosby be formally trained in hematology.
During the war, he introduced a knife and fork for one-handed men, which was put by Surgeon General Barnes on the supply list, under the name of “Detmold's knife.” In 1884, he was a founder and the first president of the New York County Medical Association, and at one time he was president of the Medical Relief Fund for Widows and Orphans.
They rose to prominence in the 19th century, serving in several states, in the United States House of Representatives, the Canadian House of Commons, and produced America's first Surgeon General.
Adam M. Robinson, Jr. (born 1950), Surgeon General of the United States Navy
When asked how he could have ignored the health risks of smoking, particularly after the addition of the Surgeon General's official 1964 report linking cancer to smoking, he insisted in a 2000 interview with Jane Brody of The New York Times that "at no time was I ever told that cigarettes could be dangerous to my health".
Contributors included Governor Arthur Phillip, Surgeon-General John White, Colonel William Paterson, Major Robert Ross, Major Francis Grose and Philip Gidley King.
Arnold was personal physician to Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, and subsequently to James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh; he was also Surgeon General to the Irish Army, and this provided the material for two of his books.
Born in Morice Town, Devon to Deputy Surgeon-General and author, William Tait, and his wife Emma, Tait entered the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in 1902.
General Innes sold the house in 1870 and, thereafter, it changed hands every few years and served as the residence of famous persons, including Sir Courtenay Ilbert, General Pemberton, General Sir C. E. Nairne, Surgeon-General Bradshaw, Surgeon-General Cleghorn and so on.
As part of the program they interacted with special guests, such as Vice President Al Gore, the anthropologist Jane Goodall, Senator Dianne Feinstein and surgeon general C. Everett Koop.
Hatch assembled an expert and powerful staff to work on health issues that included Sundwall, future FDA Commissioner David Aaron Kessler, future Surgeon General Antonia Novello, and lobbyist Nancy Taylor.
Surgeon-General Sir Edmond Townsend, KCB, CB, CMG, RAMC; MA, MD, MCh Degrees from Queen's University of Ireland.
He served as Chief of Staff for C. Everett Koop, M.D., Surgeon General; Director, Bureau of Health Care Delivery and Assistance; Acting Deputy Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration; and Director, Bureau of Community Health Services.
William Maxwell Wood, MD, USN, first Surgeon General of the US Navy, buried at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery
The timber from which the veneer was made, referred to as 'beef wood', was sent from Port Jackson by Surgeon-General John White, who arrived in the new penal colony of Australia with the First Fleet.
During a tour by an Army surgeon general in March 1946, the work was brought to the attention of the Americans, who soon arranged for Henschke and Mauch to be brought to Dayton, Ohio to work at the USAAF Aeromedical Laboratory.
United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop served as its chairman for its first thirteen years (honorary during his Surgeon General tenure).
Franz Alexander who was known for his work on Psychosomatic Medicine, short-term psychotherapy, and the corrective emotional experience and Julius B. Richmond, M.D. a pediatrician who would later develop Head Start and served as Surgeon General of the United States under President Jimmy Carter .
In 1822 he was awarded with the military title of Generalstabsarzt (Surgeon General), and in 1824 became a full professor at the University of Berlin.
In Icelandic, lemon socialism is known as "Sósíalismi andskotans", meaning "the devil's socialism", a term coined by Vilmundur Jónsson (1889–1971, Iceland's Surgeon General) in the 1930s to criticize alleged crony capitalism in Landsbanki, which term has gained renewed currency in the debate over the 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis.
Past American recipients of the Griffuel Prize include Samuel Broder, former director of the National Cancer Institute; C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General, and Anita Roberts, pioneer in research on TGF-beta.
Former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop appeared in commercials for Life Alert starting in 1992, stating that he wore one.
The campus was located on the former estate of Admiral Presley Marion Rixey, Naval Surgeon General and personal physician to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley.
On July 13, 2009, President Obama nominated Morehouse School of Medicine Trustee Dr. Regina Benjamin as U.S. Surgeon General.
Paul K. Carlton, Jr. (born 1946), Surgeon General of the United States Air Force
In 2007, he became the head of the Royal Navy Medical Service, the Medical Director General (Naval), as Surgeon Rear-Admiral, before assuming the position of Surgeon-General on 22 December 2009, taking over from Lieutenant-General Louis Lillywhite.
Robert A. Whitney (born 1935), American veterinarian and acting Surgeon General
In 1940 Robin McNair married Estelle Townsend, great niece of Surgeon-General Sir Edmond Townsend; they had seven children, including author and lawyer Duncan McNair.
As surgeon-general at Bonne Nouvelle prison in Rouen, Delabost had previously replaced individual baths with mandatory communal showers for use by prisoners, arguing that they were more economic and hygienic.
Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States was a landmark report published on January 11, 1964 by the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, chaired by then-Surgeon General of the United States Luther Terry regarding the negative health effects of smoking.
The insignia of the Surgeon General, and the USPHS, use the caduceus as opposed to the Rod of Asclepius
Bernard T. Mittemeyer M.D., former Surgeon General of the United States Army
Thomas Parran, Jr., son of Thomas Parran, Sr. and Surgeon General of the United States
President Abraham Lincoln offered to make Van Buren Surgeon General at the time of the war, and on his refusal consulted him with regard to the appointment.
A view years later he became Surgeon General of the American Boys' Brigade in the rank of Brigadier General and afterwards Assistant Surgeon of the US Naval Reserve.
During the military service he filled a variety of medical positions in the Israeli Navy until becoming the surgeon-general of the navy with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.