Dartmouth Medical School Welcomes Former US Surgeon General David Satcher, MD

Hanover, NH -- Former US Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD, will deliver the annual John P. McGovern Lecture on Science and Society at Dartmouth, Monday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Filene Auditorium of the Moore Building.

His talk, "Politics, Opinions and Public Health," is open to the public through the C. Everett Koop Institute's annual McGovern Award Lectureship. It is sponsored by Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth College.

Satcher, currently senior visiting fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation, will become director of the new National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine in September 2002. He served as the 16th Surgeon General of the United States from February 1998 through February 2002, simultaneously serving as Assistant Secretary for Health until January 2001. Previously, he was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Satcher is also the keynote speaker at Dartmouth's Paul W. Ambrose Resident Physician Leadership Symposium April 9-11. The annual symposium for physicians-in-training was named this year in memory of DHMC resident Paul Ambrose, MD, a passenger on the September 11 flight that crashed into the Pentagon, who had led the symposium with C. Everett Koop, MD, since 1998.

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