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Feb 26, 2013 · C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general of the United States who started the government’s public discussion of AIDS during the Reagan administration, died Feb. 25 at his home in Hanover, N.H.
The first person C. Everett Koop persuaded to stop smoking was his own father. John Everett Koop smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, developing a chronic cough that alarmed his wife. She shared her concerns with her son during one of his visits home from college.
1991--Published Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor; 1991-2013--Senior Scholar at the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College, an educational and outreach facility devoted to health promotion and preventive medicine, and Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School; 2010--Married Cora Hogue
Feb 25, 2013 · C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire ...
Feb 25, 2013 · HANOVER, N.H.—Former Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop, MD, a pioneer in the field of pediatric surgery, a leader in the fight to create a smoke-free nation, and founder of the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, died peacefully in his home in Hanover, N.H. on Monday, February 25, 2013. He ...
Feb 25, 2013 · Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop adjusts his bow tie before the start of the Committee on Agriculture hearing Sept. 11, 1997, at the Capitol. Koop attended the hearing to examine the ...
Apr 4, 2013 · Koop remarried in 2010 and is survived by his wife, Cora Hogue. C. Everett Koop was blunt and unsentimental, a tireless public servant who lived fearlessly for what he believed was right. All of us owe him a debt of gratitude for his very tangible accomplishments in advancing the public health.
