David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., former surgeon general of the United States and founding director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine, will speak at the UAB School of Medicine Diversity Day Grand Rounds on Friday, Feb. 5 at noon in the Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium.Satcher served simultaneously in the positions of surgeon general and assistant secretary for Health from February 1998 to January 2001. He previously served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from 1993 to 1998, and was he was President of Meharry Medical College from 1982 to 1993.
An Alabama native, Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1963, and earned his medical and doctoral degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Physicians. After his four-year term as surgeon general, Satcher became a fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, and in 2002, he assumed the post of director of theNational Center for Primary Careat the Morehouse School of Medicine.