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Dr. David Satcher, Former Surgeon General, to Speak at DMS Class Day

HANOVER, NH - Dr. David Satcher, former US Surgeon General, will deliver the keynote address at Dartmouth Medical School's Class Day on June 7, which honors the class of 2003 medical and graduate students.

Satcher is director of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. As surgeon general from 1998 to 2002, he led the department of health's effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health and proposed Healthy People 2010, the nation's ten-year health agenda. Prior to his presidential appointment, he served on the faculty of the UCLA and the Martin Luther King/Drew Schools of Medicine. A member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson, Satcher recently received the New York Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award and the Jimmy and Roslyn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contribution to the Health of Humankind.

Satcher's talk is "Healthy People 2010: Reflections of the 16th Surgeon General." The student speakers will be medical student Seth David Crockett and graduate student Neema Ganju, members of the class of 2003.

What?

• Dartmouth Medical School Class Day & Awards Ceremony 2003

When?

• Saturday, June 7, 2003 - 9:00 a.m.

Where?

• Mildred and Matthew Derzon Courtyard (front lawn of the medical school)

Who?

• Keynote speaker:
  Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General "Healthy People 2010: Reflections of the 16th Surgeon General"
  
  
• Student Speakers:
  Medical: Seth David Crockett, Class of 2003
  Graduate: Neema Ganju, Class of 2003

(In case of rain, Class Day will be at 11:30 a.m. in the Berry Sports Center, Leede Arena.)

For more information on Dartmouth's Commencement, click here