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Dr. David Satcher completed his four-year term as the 16th Surgeon General of the United States in February 2002. He also served as Assistant Secretary for Health from February 1998 to January 2001, making him only the second person in history to have held both positions of Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health simultaneously.
In December 2004, Dr. Satcher was appointed as the Interim President of the Morehouse School of Medicine. In January 2002, Dr. Satcher was named the Director of the new National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Before assuming this post in September 2002, he served as a Senior Visiting Fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation, where he spent time reflecting and writing about his experiences in government and consulting on public health programs.
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. Before that, he was President of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1982 to 1993. Prior to that, Dr. Satcher served as professor and chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine. Earlier Dr. Satcher served on the Faculty of the King-Drew Medical Center and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine and Public Health.
As Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Satcher spearheaded the development of Healthy People 2010 which included the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in health as one of its two goals. He also released 14 Surgeon General’s reports on topics that included tobacco and health; mental health; suicide prevention, oral health; sexual health; youth violence prevention; and overweight and obesity.
Dr. Satcher, a Morehouse College graduate (1963), is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and Macy Faculty Fellow. He is the recipient of over 40 honorary degrees and numerous distinguished honors, including top awards from the leading health professional organization. In 2004, he received the “Voice of Conscience Award” from Aetna for his work toward eliminating health disparities and the Discovery Channel. In 2002, he received the “Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health” and the “City of Medicine Award” from Duke and the Raleigh-Durham Medical Community.
Dr. Satcher received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1970 with election to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Dr. Satcher would most like to be known as the Surgeon General who listened to the American people and responded with effective programs. His mission continues to be to make medicine and public health work for all groups in this nation. He not only is a champion of promoting healthy lifestyles, he is also an avid jogger and enjoys tennis, gardening, and reading.
Born in 1941 in Anniston, Alabama, Dr. Satcher and his wife, the former Nola Richardson, a poet, reside in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the father of four grown children and two grandchildren, all of whom he is very proud.
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Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP is a Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, and Director of the Hospital Medicine Unit for Emory Healthcare. He is also Executive Medical Director for the Emory HCA Medical Centers. Dr. Williams graduated from Emory University School of Medicine and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, he also completed a Faculty Development Fellowship in General Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the Woodruff Leadership Academy at Emory.
Dr. Williams established the first hospitalist program at a public hospital in 1998, and now supervises the largest academic hospitalist program in the U.S. with more than 50 hospitalists working at 6 hospitals. A Past President of the Society of Hospital Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, he actively promotes the role of hospitalists as leaders in delivery of health care to hospitalized patients.
Dr. Williams' teaching activities center on promoting the use of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in patient care and a systems approach to patient safety. He developed the initial curriculum used to teach EBM to Internal Medicine residents at Emory. A strong advocate of EBM, he has participated as a tutor in the McMaster "How to Teach EBM" course and served as a member of the EBM Task Force for the Society of General Internal Medicine.
With more than 50 publications, Dr. Williams' research focuses on the role of health literacy in the delivery of health care and quality improvement. He was a Co-Principal Investigator for
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant "Role of Literacy in the Delivery of Health Care," Co-Investigator on the Prudential "Literacy and Health Study," was a member of the National Work Group on Cancer and Literacy, served as Assistant Chair of the AMA Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy, and has published extensively on the topic of health literacy. Currently, Dr. Williams is studying the role of teamwork in delivery of hospital care and the discharge process. A member of the AHRQ Web M&M and Patient Safety Network Advisory Panel, and a member of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's Discharge Expert Panel, he receives federal funding support from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality.
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