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Release Date: 2/15/2008
Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher to speak at
Siegel
Institute
Director of University Relations
Frances
Weyand Harrison
770−423−6203
fharris4@kennesaw.edu
Contact:
Karen Pressley, Public
Relations Specialist for the Siegel Institute
for Leadership, Ethics and Character, 770-499-3307 or 678-640-0535,
or Karen_Pressley@kennesaw.edu
KENNESAW,
Ga. (Feb. 15, 2008) -- Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher
will speak to a Kennesaw State University audience on ways the
country can reduce racial disparities in America's broken health
care system during a speech at 7 p.m. Feb. 19.
Satcher will
speak at the KSU Center, 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, as part of the
Siegel
Institute's "Why Leadership and Ethics Matter Speaker Series: on the
role of leadership in the reduction and ultimate elimination of
disparities in health, with a reception preceding the speech at 6:30
p.m.
Satcher was the 16th U.S. Surgeon General from 1998 to
2002, and served as the assistant U.S. Secretary for Health
1998-2001.
He was the first person in history to hold both
positions simultaneously, and the first African-American male
surgeon general since the position was created after the Civil War.
He is the first surgeon general to be commissioned as a four-star
admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps to
reflect his dual offices.
Satcher is respected for his
service in medicine and health care, including his roles as director
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), director of
the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of
Medicine in Atlanta, and faculty at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine.
He is the recipient of
many honorary degrees and numerous distinguished honors, including
top awards from the American Medical Association, the New York
Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Jimmy Carter
Award for Humanitarian Contributions for the Health of
Humankind.
Tickets are $15 for general admission; $10 for the
KSU campus. For more information about the event, visit http://www.siegelinstitute.org/.
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A member of the 35−unit University
System of Georgia‚ Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive‚
residential institution with a growing student population of more
than 20‚000 from 132 countries. The third−largest university in
Georgia‚ Kennesaw State offers more than 60 graduate and
undergraduate degrees‚ including a new doctorate in
education.
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