Word: satcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Satcher's began his career by training physicians at Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif. From there, he returned to the East Coast to teach at Morehouse, and then became the president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn...
...Satcher's work in medicine became more national in scope as he accepted an appointment from President Clinton to become the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga. He held this position until 1998, when he assumed the post of surgeon general...
Over the past year-and-a-half, Satcher has focused on three main areas of national and international health concern...
...first, to eliminate disparities in healthcare among racial and ethnic groups, has been one of Satcher's career-long goals. He says it stems from the inadequate health care he received as a child. Today, life expectancies, mortality rates, infant death rates and morbidity rates are highest among America's ethnic minorities...
...Satcher aims to eliminate disparity in the morbidity rates across racial and ethnic lines by the year...