HHS team

From:cedley@gmail.com To: lisabrown3660@gmail.com, mbarnes@barackobama.com, don.gips@level3.com CC: john.podesta@gmail.com, todd.stern@wilmerhale.com Date: 2008-10-09 16:15 Subject: HHS team

Folks -- a terrific addition to the HHS team would be Dr. Susan J. Blumenthal. She's the wife of Rep. Ed Markey, a crucial Hill ally. She retired from the HHS Public Health Service as a Rear Admiral. I pulled the bio below from the Center for the Study of the Presidency. She'd obviously be especially terrific looking at the PHS, NIH, Women's Health. She knows a lot about where bodies are buried. Pretty important to include her somehow. OK? Please let me know. I'm having dinner with Markey on Monday. Contacts: Email: DrSusanjb.@aol.com also -- 240-432-0281 SUSAN BLUMENTHAL, M.D., M.P.A CSP Senior Advisor for Health and Medicine Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. (ret) is the Senior Advisor for Health and Medicine at the Center for the Study of the Presidency, where she is leading the Center's *Agenda 2008* health care initiative. As a top government health leader with over 20 years of Federal service, Dr. Blumenthal was recently decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal of the U.S. Public Health Service, its highest honor, "for distinguished and pioneering leadership, groundbreaking contributions, and dedicated public service that has improved the health of women, our Nation, and the world." Dr. Blumenthal served as Assistant Surgeon General of the United States, as the first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary of Women's Health and as Senior Global Health Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Blumenthal has also been a White House advisor on health issues, the top medical advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and a research branch chief at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Blumenthal has done pioneering work on women's health, establishing many innovative initiatives including the National Centers of Excellence on Women's Health, the National Women's Health Information Center, and the "Missiles to Mammograms" program that transferred imaging technology used for space exploration and intelligence purposes to improve the early detection of breast cancer. Additionally, she has been an international leader in global health, the response to terrorism, emergency preparedness including pandemic flu, obesity, mental illness, AIDS, suicide, violence and disease prevention. She also fostered numerous international collaborations on health issues including establishing a Middle East Health Initiative and was the U.S. representative to the World Health Organization's Global Commission on Women's Health. Dr. Blumenthal has been at the forefront of applying technology to improve health, providing national leadership in digital medicine and telehealth as one of the first in the government to use the internet for health education, envisioning and establishing several award-winning health websites including *4woman.gov*, *safeyouth.org*, * nutrition.gov*, *globalhealth.gov*, and *4collegewomen.org*. Dr. Blumenthal serves as a Clinical Professor at Georgetown and Tufts Schools of Medicine, and as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at Brandeis University. She has served as the Bundy Visiting Professor at the Mayo Clinic, as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University in Washington, and as a Fellow at Harvard University School of Government. Dr. Blumenthal began her career in the Federal government, serving for 12 years as a Branch Chief of major national research programs at the National Institutes of Health and was Chair of the NIH Health and Behavior Coordinating Committee. She has chaired numerous Federal committees as well as national and international conferences and commissions. As a leading advocate, policymaker, and national spokesperson on health, Dr. Blumenthal has briefed Heads of State and Health Ministers, testified before Congress, and often appeared as a medical expert on national television and radio news programs. Admiral Blumenthal has authored many scientific articles, edited books, and been the health columnist for *U.S. News and World Report* and several women's magazines. She is currently the Chief Medical Advisor to a PBS Health Initiative and the Medical Director of a Discovery Channel/American Film Institute Global Health Film Series. She has served as Host and the Medical Director for an award-winning television series on health. Admiral Blumenthal serves on the Board of Directors of several philanthropic and educational institutions including Save the Children, the Academy of Achievement, Stanford University in Washington and the Meridian International Center. Dr. Blumenthal is the recipient of numerous awards, honorary doctorates, and the highest medals of the United States Public Health Service for her global leadership and landmark contributions to improving health. Contact Dr. Blumenthal at 202-872-9800 or via e-mail<http://www.thepresidency.org/People/Contact/blumenthal.html> . -- (personal email) Christopher Edley, Jr. Professor and Dean UC Berkeley Law School