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David Satcher is an American physician and public health administrator who served as Surgeon General, Assistant Secretary for Health, and Director of CDC. Learn about his biography, career, and controversies in this comprehensive article.
David Satcher is an American medical doctor and public health administrator who was the 16th surgeon general of the United States from 1998 to 2002. The son of a small farmer, Satcher nearly died of whooping cough at age two because his family had little access to health care.
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David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. Founding Director and Senior Advisor. Satcher Health Leadership Institute. Community Health & Preventive Medicine. Location: National Center for Primary Care, Room 238. Phone: 404-752-8654. E-mail: dsatcher@msm.edu. Education. MEDICAL SCHOOL: Case Western Reserve University. Degree: Doctor of Medicine. GRADUATE:
- Inspired by Overcoming Childhood Illness
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- Realized His Potential to Help
- Directed CDC
- Became 16th U.S. Surgeon General
- Kept Focus on National Issues
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Satcher's desire to become a doctor may have been planted in his earliest years, when he himself almost succumbed to a deadly disease. At the tender age of two, he contracted whooping cough—an illness for which immunizations exist today—and he nearly died. Satcher told the Los Angeles Times that he can remember the painful and desperate struggle to...
Born on March 2, 1941, in Anniston, AL; son of Wilmer (a foundry worker) and Anna Satcher; married Callie (died of breast cancer); married Nola Richardson (a poet); children: Gretchen, David, Daraka, Daryl. Education: Morehouse College, BS (honors), 1963; Case Western ReserveSchool of Medicine, MD, PhD, 1970. Career: King-Drew Sickle Cell Center, L...
At the same time, Satcher taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, served as an interim dean at the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School, and helped to open and direct a free clinic at the Second Baptist Church in Watts, a poor section of Los Angeles. Longtime Satcher friend Ben Haimowitz told the Washington Post that the gifted ...
Satcher was a primary candidate for the post at the CDC because of his long-standing commitment to preventive health care, as well as his demonstrated knowledge of urban and poverty-related public health problems. He was chosen by Health and Human Services secretary Donna Shalala in the summer of 1993 to head the CDC—an organization troubled with p...
Appointed U.S. Surgeon General in 1998 by President Clinton, Satcher put his leadership skills to even greater use. He focused the Department on racial and ethnic disparities in health and spoke out in promotion of the national health agenda called Healthy People 2010. Speaking at the Library of Congressduring African American History Month in 2000...
He directed the school's National Primary Care Center, and even served as interim president for the college from 2003 to 2006, but his involvement with the school grew deeper in 2006 when Satcher accepted the first Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair, a position named in his honor as well as noted psychiatrist Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint and entertainer and p...
Atlanta Constitution, August 21, 1993, p. A-4. Case Western Reserve University Magazine, Fall 2002, pp. 24-27. Ebony, March 1986, p. 44-50; January 1994, p. 80-82. Journal of the American Medical Association, August 19, 1998, pp. 590-1; May 1, 2002, pp. 2199-200. Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1994, p. E-1. New York Times, September 12, 1993, p. A-8; ...
Learn about the founder of SHLI, a leader in health equity research and education. Dr. Satcher is a former CDC director, surgeon general, and author of a memoir on health disparities.
David Satcher, MD, PhD is Founding Director and Senior Advisor of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute which was established in 2006 at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) strives for health equity through policy, leadership development, and research. Founded by Dr. David Satcher, SHLI focuses on political determinants of health, health system transformation, and mental health.
