Blumenthal Named Health Leader of the Year
The Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service (COA) is pleased to announce Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A., a retired Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as the recipient of the Association's 2009 Health Leader of the Year Award.
Landover, MD (PRWEB) May 2, 2009 -- The Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service (COA) is pleased to announce Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A., a retired Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as the recipient of the Association's 2009 Health Leader of the Year Award. The COA Health Leader of the Year Award was established in 1987 to recognize individuals who have made notable contributions to the health of the nation. Contributions can be in research, administration, service delivery or some other area of public health.
Rear Admiral Blumenthal is recognized for her lifetime achievements and leadership in raising national awareness and scientific attention to women's health issues as well as a range of other critical public health concerns. As the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Women's Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Admiral Blumenthal stimulated and coordinated women's health issues across federal agencies and pioneered many innovative initiatives including the National Centers of Excellence on Women's Health at universities across the country to serve as models for research, training and care, the National Women's Health Information Center, and the "Missiles to Mammograms" program that transferred imaging technology used for space exploration and intelligence purposes to improve the early detection of breast cancer.
She also served as a White House advisor on health issues, as Senior Global Health Advisor in HHS, as the top medical advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, as Chief of the Behavioral Medicine and Basic Prevention Research Branch and Chair of the Health and Behavior Coordinating Committee at the National Institutes of Health.
Additionally, RADM Blumenthal has been an international leader in global health including AIDS, emergency preparedness issues such as bioterrorism and pandemic flu, mental illness, suicide, violence, disease and obesity prevention. She fostered numerous international collaborations on health diplomacy including establishing a Middle East Health Initiative and was the U.S. representative to the World Health Organization's Global Commission on Women's Health. Admiral Blumenthal has been at the forefront of applying information technology to improve health, providing national leadership as one of the first in the government to use the internet for health education, envisioning and establishing several award-winning websites including 4woman.gov, safeyouth.org, nutrition.gov, globalhealth.gov, and 4collegewomen.org. Additionally, she is the author of numerous scientific publications, served as the health columnist for national magazines and as the host and medical director for an award winning television series on health.
Upon her retirement from active duty with the PHS Commissioned Corps after 20 years of service, Admiral Blumenthal was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of the U.S. Public Health Service "for distinguished and pioneering leadership, groundbreaking contributions, and dedicated public service that has improved the health of women, our nation, and the world." She has received honorary doctorates for her innovative work in identifying and championing understudied public health problems, and marshaling the resources of the government to address them.
Dr. Blumenthal is now Director of the Health and Medicine Program at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, where she leads its Commission on Charting New Directions in the field. She is also the Senior Policy and Medical Advisor at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, Chair of the Global Health Program at the Meridian International Center and a Clinical Professor at Georgetown and Tufts Schools of Medicine.
Previous recipients of the Health Leader of the Year Award have included former U.S. Surgeons General Antonia Novello, C. Everett Koop, Richard Carmona, and Acting Surgeon General Kenneth Moritsugu; Senators Bill Frist, John Warner, and Tim Hutchinson; Human Genome pioneer Dr. Francis X. Collins; NIH NIAID Director RADM Anthony Fauci, and many other distinguished public health leaders.
The Health Leader of the Year Award will be presented to RADM Blumenthal at the annual Awards Luncheon of COA on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 in Atlanta, GA during the 44th US PHS Scientific and Training Symposium sponsored by the PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation. For more information, visit http://www.phscofevents.org/.
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