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Richard Henry Carmona (born November 22, 1949) is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States.
Richard Carmona. Chief of Health Innovation. From days of homelessness as a child, Dr. Richard Carmona worked his way up to serving as 17th U.S. Surgeon General (2002 – 2006). He’s a renowned integrative medicine physician, trauma surgeon, and global public health leader with military service and law enforcement experience.
Bush thought that Carmona's experience in emergency management, bioterrorism, and law enforcement suited him perfectly for the role of U.S. Surgeon General after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Born Richard Henry Carmona on November 22, 1949, Carmona was raised in New York City's Spanish Harlem neighborhood.
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Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona was sworn in as the 17th Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service on August 5, 2002. Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Carmona dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967.
Clinical Professor, Pharmacy Practice-Science. Professor, Surgery. AzCIM Fellowship Faculty member: Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Richard Carmona MD, MPH, FACS was the 17th Surgeon General of the United States and is the Distinguished Professor of Public Health at MEZCOPH.
Carmona, who was honored as the UCSF School of Medicine’s Alum of the Year at Alumni Weekend 2024, has worked at every level of health care, including as a registered nurse, paramedic, physician, and hospital and health system CEO. During his 2002-2006 tenure as surgeon general, for which he was confirmed unanimously by the US Senate, he ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Sep 29, 2021, 4:55 AM | Updated: 9:43 am. Dr. Richard Carmona, Arizona’s top pandemic adviser, served as U.S. surgeon general under President George W. Bush from 2002 to 2006. (Photo by Mark...
