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President Barack Obama plans to nominate Dr. Vivek Hallegere
Murthy, the Indian-American head of a doctors group that promotes his signature
healthcare law to be the next US surgeon general.
Murthy is a hospitalist at the Brigham and is co-founder and
president of Doctors for America, a Washington, DC-based group of 16,000
physicians and medical students that advocates for access to affordable, high
quality health care.If confirmed by the Senate, Murthy will replace Regina
Benjamin, who was appointed by Obama in 2009 and left her post last summer.
The job focuses
heavily on public health issues.Murthy was appointed to the President's Advisory
Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health in
2011. The prevention group was created as part of the Affordable Care Act
health reform law.
His group, Doctors for America, was originally called
Doctors for Obama and helped to campaign for Obama's election.
Murthy co-founded VISIONS Worldwide in 1995, a non-profit
organization focused on HIV/AIDS education in India and the United States,
where he served as President from 1995 to 2000 and Chairman of the Board from
2000 to 2003.
Murthy received a BA from Harvard University, an MBA from
Yale School of Management, and an MD from Yale School of Medicine.
"I am confident that these outstanding individuals will
greatly serve the American people in their new roles and I look forward to
working with them in the months and years to come," Obama said in
announcing Murthy's appointment along with three other key posts.
The announcement came shortly after Obama acknowledging that
his administration "fumbled" in the troubled rollout of his
healthcare law offered a fix that would allow insurers to keep for another year
people on plans that were to be cancelled for not meeting minimum standards
under the new law.
In the midst of mounting criticism of the troubled
healthcare website, former President Bill Clinton had Tuesday suggested that
Obama should make sure Americans can retain their current health insurance
plans, even if it means revamping the Affordable Care Act.
"I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the
law, the president should honour the commitment the federal government made to
those people and let them keep what they've got," Clinton told OZY, a news
website.
Murthy, though was born in London and shifted base to the US
later, he has links with the Hallegere village of Mandya district. Dr. Murthy Speaks Kannada Very well and he keep Coming to Hallegere Village once a Year to Conduct some or the Other Health Programs
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Dr. Vivek H Murthy,
M.D., M.B.A.
Profile
Positions: Attending
PhysicianBWH/Faulkner Hospitalist ServiceGeneral Internal MedicineBrigham and
Women's Hospital (Boston, MA)
Instructor: Harvard
Medical School (Boston, MA)
Co-founder and
Chairman: TrialNetworks Co-Founder and PresidentDoctors for America
Appointee: U.S.
Presidential Advisory Council on Prevention, Health Promotion, Integrative and
Public Health
Degrees: M.D.,
Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, CT) M.B.A., Yale School of Management (New
Haven, CT) B.A., Biochemical Sciences, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Clinical Training: Residency, Internal Medicine, Brigham and
Women's Hospital
Past Advisors: Cary P Gross (as Medical
Student) David L Katz (as Medical Student) Gerald B Pier (as Undergraduate
Student)
Research:
Other Experience:1999-2003Founder, Reclaiming the Heart of
Medicine, Yale School of Medicine1997-2002Co-founder, Swasthya Community Health
Partnership1995-2000Co-founder and President, VISIONS Worldwide
Honors: 2000AMA Foundation Leadership Award1998-2001Paul and Daisy
Soros Fellow1997Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
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