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Post by pubtv on Jan 7, 2009 3:40:37 GMT
Report: CNN's Atlanta-Based Sanjay Gupta Offered Surgeon General Post Tuesday, January 6, 2009 – updated: 4:51 pm EST January 6, 2009 FROM CNN -- Atlanta-based chief CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been approached by the Obama administration about the U.S. surgeon general's post, according to sources inside the transition and at CNN. The Washington Post reported President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job to Gupta. The newspaper said "Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way." CNN reported that Gupta asked both CNN and CBS to release him from him contracts at those networks. The transition team is impressed with the combination of Gupta's past government experience, as a White House fellow and a special advisor to then-first lady Hillary Clinton, along with his medical career as a neurosurgeon and his communication skills, the transition source said. Gupta has declined comment on the matter. CNN released a statement saying, "Since first learning that Dr. Gupta was under consideration for the surgeon general position, CNN has made sure that his on-air reporting has been on heath and wellness matters and not on health-care policy or any matters involving the new administration." Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty of the department of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and regularly performs surgery at Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital, where he serves as associate chief of neurosurgery. In 2004, the Atlanta Press Club named him "Journalist of the Year." He has won the Humanitarian Award from the National Press Photographers Association, a GOLD Award from the National Health Care Communicators and the International Health and Medical Media award known as the "Freddie." His first book, Chasing Life, was released in the spring of 2007 and became a national bestseller and was also the subject of a one-hour documentary of the same name on CNN. In 2003, Gupta reported from Iraq and Kuwait as an embedded correspondent with the U.S. Navy’s medical unit, the "Devil Docs." He provided viewers with exclusive reports from points along the unit's travel to Baghdad and provided live coverage from a desert operating room of the first operation performed during the war and also performed brain surgery five times himself. www.wsbtv.com/politics/18423503/detail.html
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Post by whitedove on Jan 7, 2009 3:47:17 GMT
I like Dr. Sanjay Gupta I think he would be a great Surgeon General!
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