Word: pellegrino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, after serving longer than anyone expected, a frustrated Egeberg conceded that he will soon be leaving his post for a less visible position on the HEW secretary's staff. The Nixon Administration's third choice for the position is Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, 50, dean of New York State University Medical School at Stony Brook, Long Island, and not registered in either political party...
...Pellegrino is no less liberal in his views on national health needs than are Drs. Knowles and Egeberg. He has been expanding his hospital's services to the poor, favors a national health insurance plan and wants a sizable increase in the number of U.S. medical students and paramedical personnel. He is said to be an excellent administrator, a skill he will need at HEW, where his new post will involve overseeing the disbursal of some $4 billion a year. And according to some HEW insiders, administration was not one of Egeberg's strengths...