Subject: HHS team
From: "Christopher Edley" <[email-masked]>
To: "Lisa Brown" <[email-masked]>, "Melody Barnes" <[email-masked]>, "Gips, Don" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:15:37 -0700

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:  [email-masked]
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>
.

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(personal email)
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Professor and Dean
UC Berkeley Law School