DR.
DAVID SATCHER
16th US SURGEON GENERAL
Dr. David Satcher was the 16th Surgeon General of
the United States and also served as Assistant Secretary
for Health, making him only the second person in history
to have held both positions of Surgeon General and
Assistant Secretary of Health simultaneously. He is
currently Director of the new National Center for
Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in
Atlanta, GA.
As Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health,
Dr. Satcher led the Department’s effort to eliminate
racial and ethnic disparities in health. He also released
Surgeon General’s reports on tobacco and health;
mental health, and supplements on children’s
mental health: culture, race and ethnicity; suicide
and mental retardation prevention; oral health; sexual
health and responsible sexual behavior; youth violence
prevention and overweight and obesity.
From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Satcher served as Director
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry. He was President of Meharry
Medical College in Nashville, TN, from 1982 to 1993
and has held faculty appointments at Morehouse School
of Medicine, the UCLA School of Medicine and Public
Health, and the King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians,
the American College of Preventive Medicine and the
American College of Physicians. He has received nearly
three dozen honorary degrees and numerous distinguished
honors, including top awards from the National Medical
Association, the American Medical Association, the
American College of Physicians, the American Academy
of Family Physicians, and the American Academy for
the Advancement of Science as well as Ebony magazine.
Dr. Satcher is committed to promoting quality primary
care, the elimination of disparities in health and
making public health work for all groups in this nation.
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