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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama's "unqualified" pick for Surgeon General
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Early Life and education
Murthy was born to a Kannada speaking family; his parents are originally from Karnataka, India. He was born in Huddersfield, England, but his family relocated to Miami, Florida when he was three years old. Murthy completed his early education in Miami, graduating as valedictorian from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1994. He then attended college at Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in three years with a bachelors degree in Biochemical Sciences. Murthy received an MD from Yale School of Medicine and an MBA in Health Care Management from Yale School of Management in 2003, where he was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine in 2006 from Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Career
Murthy is a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a Hospitalist Attending Physician and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a founder and president of Doctors for America, a group of 15,000 physicians and medical students supporting Obama. In 2011, Murthy was appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The group advises the National Prevention Council on developing strategies and partnerships to advance the nation's health.
He is co-founder and chairman of TrialNetworks, a cloud-based Clinical Trial Optimization System for pharmaceutical and biotechnology trials that improves the quality and efficiency of clinical trials to bring new drugs to market faster and more safely. He founded the company as Epernicus in 2008 to originally be a collaborative networking web platform for scientists to boost research productivity. Since 1995, he has also worked in H.I.V. prevention and AIDS education, co-founding and serving as president and chairman of a non-profit organization, Visions Worldwide, focused on that mission in the U.S and in India. He has been a prominent supporter of Obama's healthcare law.
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President Obama's "unqualified" pick for Surgeon General (Original Post)
Botany
Oct 2014
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muntrv
(14,505 posts)1. Obama should have picked HIM to be the "ebola czar."
Botany
(70,518 posts)3. As surgeon general he could have been "the ebola czar" .....
.... but some in the senate have blocked him from coming up for a vote as surgeon general.
But according to Ted Cruz, Murthy isn't a health care professional.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025687915
former9thward
(32,025 posts)5. The SG really could not be an ebola czar.
The Ebola czar was put in there to manage the response to the problem. That is not in the duties of the SG at all. The SG is a post which gives out information on health issues. It can't tell anyone what to do.
Botany
(70,518 posts)7. It depends on the S.G. and how she/he sees the duties of the job.
n/t
f9t
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)2. And why are they blocking him?
Is it because he's "rabidly" anti-gun, or he believes gun death data should be recorded/paid attention to?
TlalocW
notrightatall
(410 posts)4. The latter, of course.
hack89
(39,171 posts)6. Which is stupid because he would have little impact on gun laws
the Repukes are merely flexing their muscle because they can.