His work in public health led to his appointment by President Obama to serve on the Advisory Group for Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health
History unfolded today as 37-year old, Dr Vivek Hallegere Murthy was appointed as the youngest US Surgeon General. Miami boy, Dr Murthy is of Indian descent, born to immigrant Kannadigas in England. His parents relocated to Miami when he was three years old.
Armed with a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard and MD and MBA from Yale, Dr Murthy is poised to change the face of healthcare in the US. With combined expertise in medicine and business he founded TrialNetworks, a cloud-based Clinical Trial Optimization System for pharma and biotech trials to bring new molecules to market faster more safely by improving the quality and efficacy of clinical trials.
He also co-founded VISIONS Worldwide Inc., a nonprofit organisation with his sister Rashmi Murthy, in 1995 to bridge the gap between AIDS education in US and India and focused on various community-health projects.
His interest in health reform took shape of a group of 15,000 physicians and medical students called Doctors for America, supporting comprehensive health reform. He is the founder and president of the group.
As an internal medicine physician and educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School he has taught hundreds of residents and medical students and is recognised through many awards.
His work in public health led to his appointment by President Obama to serve on the Advisory Group for Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health where he has helped inform and disseminate the nation’s first National Prevention Strategy.
EH News Bureau