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Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, Health Affairs, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814, 301-656-7401, fmullan@projecthope.org
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., is a Contributing Editor of the journal Health Affairs and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at George Washington University. He is a member of the medical staff at Upper Cardozo Community Health Center in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Mullan graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1964 with a degree in history and from the University of Chicago Medical School in 1968. He trained in pediatrics at the Jacobi and Lincoln Hospitals in the Bronx, NY. In 1972 he was commissioned in the US Public Health Service and practiced in New Mexico as one of the first physicians in the National Health Service Corps. From 1977 through 1981 he served as Director of the National Health Service Corps in Washington, DC, followed by tours as Scholar-In-Residence at the Institute of Medicine, as a senior medical officer at the National Institutes of Health and, in 1984-85, as the Secretary of the Health and Environment Department for the State of New Mexico. During 1986-88, he was on faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health followed by two years on the staff of the Surgeon General, directing the Office of Public Health History. He was appointed Director of the Bureau of Health Professions in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in 1990 and to the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral) in 1991. In subsequent years, he served on both the President's Task Force on Health Care Reform and the Council on Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Mullan retired from the Public Health Service on January 1, 1996 to assume his current positions.
Dr. Mullan has written widely for both professional and general audiences on medical and health policy topics. He is the Founding President of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. He is the recipient of the American Cancer Society’s 1988 Courage award, the Society for Surgical Oncology’s 1989 James Ewing medal, as well as the Surgeon General’s Medallion, and the United States Public Health Service’s Distinguished Service Medal. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Health Museum. Dr. Mullan is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
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