Richard Carmona - Department of Health and Human Services

Richard Carmona is Surgeon General. According to whitehouse.gov: Richard Carmona was previously Clinical Professor of Surgery, Public Health, and Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona, as well as Chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System. He was also chief executive officer of the Pima County Health Care System from 1997 to 1999, Medical Director of Kino Community Hospital from 1995 until 1999 and director of Trauma Services at Tucson Medical Center from 1985 to 1993. Richard has an extensive record of public service, including serving as an Army Green Beret in Vietnam, a police officer, a SWAT team member and as a nurse. He received his bachelor and medical degrees from the University of California, San Francisco.

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Bush's Surgeon General of Industry-Friendly Spin

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"White House officials viewed former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona as a public relations tool, pushing him to make political appearances and promote the Bush administration 's agenda while he was in office, according to a series of executive branch e-mails released yesterday by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)," reports the Washington Post . In July, Carmona had testified before Congress that Bush appointees routinely "sought to rewrite his speeches, send him on political trips, and suppress his reports on global health and other politically sensitive topics." The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is also investigating allegations that Carmona "was blocked from ... Read Full Story

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Dr. Richard Carmona on the Obesity Epidemic

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Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona describes the current health crisis as preventable and reversible. He notes that chronic disease accounts for 7 in 10 deaths and 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care in the United States. As 17th U.S. surgeon general, Carmona worked to revise our nation's approach to health care. Read Full Story

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Surgeon General Gets Specific

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Richard H. Carmona In testimony before Congress, former U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of muzzling him on sensitive public health issues. According to the Washington Post this makes him "the most prominent voice among several current and former federal science officials who have complained of political interference. Carmona, a Bush nominee who served from 2002 to 2006, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that political appointees in the administration routinely scrubbed his speeches for politically sensitive content and blocked him from speaking out on public health matters such as stem cell research , abstinence-only ... Read Full Story

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STOP Obesity Alliance Issues Recommendations To Ensure Health Reform Successfully Addresses Obesity Epidemic

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The two most recent Surgeons General of the United States, David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., FAAFP, FACPM, FACP and Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, today led the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance in urging policymakers to take direct action in health reform to address obesity and the chronic diseases associated with it. “We’ve reached the tipping point on obesity in the United States,” said Dr. Richard H. Carmona, 17th U.S. Read Full Story

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Former Surgeon General Carmona Says Administration Censored Him

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Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona told Congress Tuesday that Bush administration officials repeatedly stopped him from speaking out on major health care issues such as stem cell research, edited his speeches and prevented publication of significant health reports because they did not fit the president’s political agenda. Read Full Story

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Carmona: Disease prevention shortchanged

Up to 40 percent to 50 percent of all cancers are preventable, though it's not an issue that the government and politicians are publicizing enough, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona says.

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