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Sep 30, 2023 · Dr. David Satcher’s commitment to health equity led to the establishment of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. The institute focuses on training and empowering public health leaders who will champion initiatives to eliminate health disparities and improve health outcomes in ...
Apr 25, 2024 · 1996. Born in Alabama in 1941, David Satcher was appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1993, and in 1998 he was appointed surgeon general by President Bill Clinton. Satcher received many awards throughout his career, including the New York Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award (1997) and the Jimmy and ...
Sep 16, 2020 · Dr. David Satcher and his siblings getting a checkup from a Black doctor. At the time, Black doctors did not have admitting rights to hospitals in the South.(Photo courtesy of Satcher family)
Jan 14, 2018 · David Satcher, physician, educator, and administrator, was born in Anniston, Alabama, on March 2, 1941 to Wilmer and Anne Satcher. In 1963, Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned an M.D. and Ph.D. in cytogenetics from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. In 1979, Satcher became a professor and later chair of ...
David Satcher is the founding director and senior advisor of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. He served as the sixteenth surgeon general of the United States from 1998 to 2002, and as assistant secretary for health from 1998 to January 2001, the second person in history to serve in both capacities simultaneously.
David Satcher, MD, is a renowned physician, scholar, and public health leader. Before he was appointed surgeon general by President Bill Clinton in September 1997, Satcher served as director of ...
Mar 20, 2008 · David Satcher — the 16th U.S. surgeon general and co-author of “Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities” (McGraw-Hill, 2006), was in Boston (March 13) to deliver the fourth in a 2007-08 series of lectures in Public Health Practice and Leadership sponsored by the HSPH’s Division of Health Practice.
