Jesse Leonard Steinfeld

Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
11th Surgeon General of the United States
In office
18 December 1969 – 30 June 1973
President Richard M. Nixon
Preceded by William H. Stewart
Succeeded by Julius B. Richmond
Personal details
Born January 27, 1927 (1927-01-27) (age 84)
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA

Jesse Leonard Steinfeld (born 26 January 1927) is an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the eleventh Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973.

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Biography

Early years

Steinfeld was born in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb of West Aliquippa. He received his B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1945 and his M.D. degree from Western Reserve University (now called Case Western Reserve University) in 1949. Steinfeld then completed an internship at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles and residencies at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California and at the University of California, San Francisco in the Laboratory of Experimental Oncology.

Career

Steinfeld became instructor in medicine at the University of California, San Francisco in 1952. From 1954 to 1958, he served as director of the Radioisotope Laboratory of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and simultaneously held an appointment as instructor in medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. In 1959, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Medicine as assistant professor of medicine, rising through the ranks to associate professor in 1963 and professor in 1967. His research interests focused on cancer.

In 1968, Steinfeld returned to the National Cancer Institute as Associate Director for Programs. The following year, he was made Deputy Director of the Institute. That same year, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, and Surgeon General beginning 18 December 1969.

A reorganization of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1968 had transferred the leadership of the Public Health Service to the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, so Steinfeld no longer had the line management authority of Surgeons General in the pre-1968 period. During his tenure, there was an effort to do away with the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and a 1971 report made such a recommendation. The report also called the position of Surgeon General "an organizational anomaly," thus calling into question the need for such a position. Steinfeld spoke on behalf of the internal opposition to the report, and thanks to strong support for the Corps and the Surgeon General on the part of certain members of the United States Congress, the recommendations of the report were not implemented.

During Steinfeld's tenure as Surgeon General, two important new Public Health Service programs were established, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Health Service Corps. As a specialist in the field of cancer, Steinfeld also no doubt welcomed the passage of the National Cancer Act of 1971, which enhanced the ability of the Public Health Service to combat this deadly disease.

At the beginning of the second Richard Nixon administration, Steinfeld resigned as Surgeon General effective 30 January 1973. He then served as Director of the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center and as Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Medical School (1973-1974). Following that, Steinfeld was Professor of Medicine at the University of California-Irvine and Chief of Medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California from 1974 to 1976. He then served as Dean and Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine of the Medical College of Virginia from 1976 to 1983. Steinfeld became President of the Medical College of Georgia in 1983, a position that he held until his retirement in 1987.

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