DAVID SATCHER, M.D., Ph.D.
U.S. Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health

David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., is the 16th surgeon general of the United States. Sworn in on February 13, 1998, he is only the second person in history to simultaneously hold the positions of surgeon general and assistant secretary for health. In these roles, he serves as the secretary's senior advisor on public health matters and as director of the office of public health and science.

Prior to nominating Dr. Satcher to serve in his present post, President Clinton also appointed him as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the agency for toxic substances and disease registry, where he served from 1993 to 1998. Before joining the administration, he was president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1982 to 1993.

Dr. Satcher served as professor and chairman of the department of community medicine and family practice at Morehouse School of Medicine from 1979 to 1982. He is a former faculty member of the UCLA School of Medicine and the King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he developed and chaired the King-Drew department of family medicine. From 1977 to 1979, he served as the interim dean of the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School, during which time, he negotiated the agreement with UCLA School of Medicine and the Board of Regents that led to a medical education program at King-Drew. He also directed the King-Drew Sickle Cell Research Center for six years.

Dr. Satcher is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and Macy Faculty Fellow. He is the recipient of 18 honorary degrees and numerous distinguished honors, including top awards from the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and Ebony magazine. In 1995, he received the Breslow Award in Public Health and in 1997 the New York Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award. Earlier this year, he received the Bennie Mays Trailblazer Award and the Jimmy and Roslyn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1963 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his medical degree and doctor of philosophy degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1970 with election to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Satcher would most like to be known as the surgeon general who listens to the American people and who responds with effective programs. His mission is to make public health work for all groups in this nation. He is not only a champion of promoting healthy lifestyles, he is also an avid jogger and enjoys tennis, gardening and reading.

Born in Anniston, Alabama, on March 2, 1941, Dr. Satcher and his wife, Nola, reside in Bethesda, Maryland and have four grown children.

KRISTIN NICHOL, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota and Chief of Medicine VA Medical Center in Minneapolis

Kristin L. Nichol, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota and chief of medicine at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis, where she is active as a clinician, teacher and researcher.

Dr. Nichol's research interests are in the areas of preventive medicine and ambulatory care. Her research has focused on issues relating to adult vaccines with a special emphasis on influenza and pneumococcal vaccination. She has pursued observational studies and clinical trials in such areas as successful delivery strategies, determinants of vaccination behavior, side effects associated with vaccination and the clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of vaccination.

Dr. Nichol is chairperson of the Minnesota Coalition for Adult Immunization and serves as the Department of Veterans Affairs ex officio member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). She is also the chairperson for the National Coalition for Adult Immunization Steering Committee.

Dr. Nichol received her medical and public health degrees from the University of Minnesota, and conducted her internal medicine training at the University of California in San Francisco and the University of Minnesota.

KEIJI FUKUDA, M.D., M.P.H.
Epidemiology Section Chief, Influenza Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Keiji Fukuda, M.D., M.P.H., is the epidemiology section chief of the influenza branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is also clinical assistant professor in the department of community and preventive medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and commander of the U.S. Public Health Service, Commissioned Corps.

Dr. Fukuda is responsible for national influenza surveillance in the U.S. and led the CDC field teams that investigated the outbreak of avian influenza A (H5N1) and recent avian influenza A (H9N2) cases in Hong Kong.

Author of numerous published research studies, book chapters and reviews on infectious diseases including influenza, Dr. Fukuda is a member of the American College of Physicians and the Commission Corps Officers Association.

Dr. Fukuda received his medical degree from University of Vermont and his master of public health degree from University of California-Berkeley.

BONNIE M. WORD, M.D.
Pediatrician and Member, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices
Bonnie M. Word, M.D., is a pediatrician who specializes in pediatric infectious diseases and management of HIV/AIDS. In 1998, Dr. Word was appointed to serve on the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the bylaws committee of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society. In addition to serving on the faculty of the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey's Physician AIDS Education Program, she is also a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

For more than 10 years, Dr. Word has been involved in HIV research and has co-authored articles on topics such as bacterial meningitis therapy and the treatment of pediatric HIV/AIDS. Her professional interests include immunizations, otitis media and travel medicine.

Dr. Word received her medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed a three-year pediatric residency at Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., before being named chief resident in pediatrics there. Dr. Word completed her post-graduate training at Boston City Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where she was a research fellow in pediatric infectious diseases.

SANDRA ADAMSON FRYHOFER, M.D., F.A.C.P.
President, American College of Physicians -
American Society of Internal Medicine

Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, M.D., F.A.C.P., has spent much of her career as an advocate for general internal medicine with a special interest in women's health issues. She is a general internist engaged in private group practice with the Piedmont Medical Care Foundation at Piedmont Hospital, a division of PROMINA Health Systems, in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Fryhofer is also a clinical associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Prior to the merger of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Society of Internal Medicine (ASIM) in 1998, Dr. Fryhofer was chair of the ACP committee of women's health and has served as a member of the board of regents since 1994. She has been an active member of ACP-ASIM's educational policy committee since 1994. She also serves as the national spokesperson for the "Internist Today," the college's national identity campaign designed to educate the public about the role of internists in today's primary care environment.

Dr. Fryhofer graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her medical degree and internal medicine training from Emory University School of Medicine, where she is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society.

Dr. Fryhofer has presented numerous lectures and served on several panels presenting her expertise on various subjects including hormone replacement therapy, menopause, treatment of depression in the primary care setting, and oral contraceptives and lipid disorders. Dr. Fryhofer's published works include "The Examination of the Female Pelvis" (The Raven Press), which received a Montague Boyd Award for outstanding professional

JEFFREY KANG, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality and Chief Clinical Officer, Health Care Financing Administration

Jeffrey Kang, M.D., M.P.H., is the director of the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) office of clinical standards and quality. His responsibilities include developing national coverage policies and quality standards for Medicare providers, collecting performance measures for provider accountability, overseeing quality improvement activities and managing Medicare's peer review program. In his capacity as HCFA's chief clinical officer, Dr. Kang works on clinical policy, purchasing initiatives and quality of care issues in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

As a White House fellow in 1994-95, Dr. Kang first served as a special assistant to U.S. Small Business Administrator Phil Lader, and later moved to HCFA to serve as a special assistant to HCFA administrator Bruce Vladeck. He served as chief medical officer for HCFA's office of managed care from 1995-97, and chief medical officer for HCFA's center for health plan and providers from 1997-98.

His career began in 1984 at the Urban Medical Group in Boston, where he served as executive director and staff physician until 1994. During his tenure as executive director, the group participated in two capitated managed care programs for the elderly based on Secure Horizon's and On Lok/PACE models. He is board certified in internal medicine and geriatrics (added qualifications), and was on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from University of California-San Francisco, master of public health from University of California-Berkeley and bachelor of arts from Harvard College.