Nomination of C. Everett Koop To Be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service

The President today announced his intention to nominate C. Everett Koop to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, for a term of 4 years. This is a reappointment.

Since 1981 Dr. Koop has been serving as Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. Previously he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. He was surgeon-in-chief of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, and professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He began his association with the University of Pennsylvania in 1941. He is a member of the Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons; the Surgical Steering Committee; Children's Cancer Study Group; and the Cancer Committee, American Pediatric Surgical Association. He has received many honorary degrees and is the author of more than 170 articles and books on the practice of medicine.

Dr. Koop graduated from Dartmouth College (A.B., 1937), Cornell Medical School (M.D., 1941), and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania (Sc.D., 1947). He is married, has four children, and resides in Bethesda, MD. He was born October 14, 1916, in New York City, NY.