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Feb 25, 2013 · When C. Everett Koop finished his 8-year term as surgeon general in 1989, he left behind a landscape where AIDS was a top research and educational priority, smoking was considered a public health ...
C. Everett “Chick” Koop was born in Brooklyn, NY, on October 14, 1916. He was an only child, and grew up surrounded by close-knit extended family. He expressed interest in medicine at an early age, and as a teenager he would sneak into the viewing gallery in the operating theaters at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Feb 25, 2013 · C. Everett Koop died yesterday at the age of 96. Here are nine things you should know about the former surgeon general. 1. In 1981, Dr. Charles Everett Koop—his lifelong nickname was “Chick”, short for “chicken coop”—had never served in public office when President Ronald Reagan appointed him surgeon general of the United States.
Feb 25, 2013 · Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop died Monday. He was 96. As surgeon general, Koop turned an office with little power into a mighty platform to educate Americans about AIDS prevention and the ...
Feb 25, 2013 · C. Everett Koop, the Christian physician and former U.S. Surgeon General who brought abortion to the forefront of evangelical social action, died today at 96.. Together with theologian Francis ...
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. He was 96. A spokeswoman for the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth confirmed his death but did not disclose the cause.
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 ...
