"If you really want to drive health and health care-related efforts, having a state-level
surgeon general is a really great way to convene stakeholders and work across the aisle."
But the
surgeon general's report does not go far enough, given that five times more Americans suffer from chronic pain than have an opioid use disorder, according to William Maixner, DDS, PhD, professor of anesthesiology and director of Duke University's Center for Translational Pain Medicine, Durham, N.C.
The five main points in the
Surgeon General's call to action are:
He was
surgeon general at the start of the AIDS epidemic.
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, reminded us that the first report on smoking was issued in 1964, and for the next 45 years, "29
surgeon generals' reports have documented the overwhelming and conclusive biologic, epidemiologic, behavioral, and pharmacologic evidence that tobacco use is deadly."
Benjamin is the 18th
surgeon general of the Public Health Service.
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders made an inspiring speech emphasizing the importance of community involvement and education.
Surgeon General to hold a conference that would establish a research agenda to "speed the identification of, and treatments for, the causes of and risk factors for preterm labor and delivery." In 2007, the
Surgeon General named the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health as the scientific lead for the conference.
Schoomaker became the 42nd
surgeon general of the Army in December, and then assumed command of the U.S.
FOR SEVERAL MONTHS I'VE HAD A WORRY, ONE OF those that at first seems mad but won't, over time, go away: Sometime in the foreseeable future, anti-abortion forces will make another run at the
surgeon general, seeking a warning that abortion is hazardous to women's health.
Some of her past military assignments include Special Assistant to the
Surgeon General for Management and Health Policy; Commander, Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning, GA; Senior Policy Analyst in Health Affairs, Department of Defense; and Chief, Anesthesia Nursing Service at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
The president also nominated James Holsinger, Jr., MD, PhD, to be the nation's 18th
surgeon general. If confirmed, Holsinger will replace Richard Carmona, whose term was allowed to expire last summer.
The
Surgeon General is the nation's top public health officer.
The
Surgeon General, the Nation's top public health officer, is appointed by the President of the United States to help protect and promote the health of the Nation.
