Jesse Leonard Steinfeld

Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
	Richard M. Nixon
Preceded by	William H. Stewart
Succeeded by	Julius B. Richmond
Personal details
Born	January 6, 1927; Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA
Died	August 5, 2014 (aged 87); Pomona, California, US
Political party	Republican
Children	Susan Steinfeld,; Mary Beth Steinfeld,; Jody Stefansson
Alma mater	University of Pittsburgh,; Case Western Reserve University

Jesse Leonard Steinfeld (January 6, 1927 – August 5, 2014) was an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the eleventh surgeon general of the United States from 1969 to 1973.

Early life and education

Steinfeld was born in the

Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California, and at the University of California, San Francisco in the Laboratory of Experimental Oncology

.

Early career

Steinfeld became

radioisotope laboratory of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and simultaneously held an appointment as instructor in medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. In 1959, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Medicine as assistant professor of medicine, rising through the ranks to associate professor in 1963 and professor in 1967. His research interests focused on cancer

.

In 1968, Steinfeld returned to the National Cancer Institute as associate director for programs. The following year, he was made deputy director of the institute.

Surgeon general

He was appointed deputy assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs, and surgeon general beginning December 18, 1969.

A

Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and a 1971 report made such a recommendation. The report also called the position of surgeon general "an organizational anomaly," thus calling into question the need for such a position. Steinfeld spoke on behalf of the internal opposition to the report, and thanks to strong support for the corps and the surgeon general on the part of certain members of the United States Congress

, the recommendations of the report were not implemented.

During Steinfeld's tenure as surgeon general, two important new Public Health Service programs were established, the

National Cancer Act of 1971

, which enhanced the ability of the Public Health Service to combat this deadly disease.

Later career

At the beginning of the second

Medical College of Virginia from 1976 to 1983. Steinfeld became president of the Medical College of Georgia in 1983, a position that he held until his retirement

in 1987.

Death

Steinfeld died on August 5, 2014, from complications from a stroke in Pomona, California, aged 87.^[2]

References

^
ISSN 0362-4331
. Retrieved 2019-02-13.

^ "Surgeon general who fought tobacco dies at 87". Heraldnet.com. Retrieved 6 August 2014.

Other websites

Office of Public Health and Science (4 January 2007). "Office of the Surgeon General: Jesse Leonard Steinfeld (1969–1973)". U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-01-17.

[:0-1] 
ISSN 0362-4331
. Retrieved 2019-02-13.

[2] "Surgeon general who fought tobacco dies at 87". Heraldnet.com. Retrieved 6 August 2014.

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