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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
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Press Release |
.....March 26, 2002..... |
Center President John F. Kilner Represents CBHD at White House Ceremony Introducing Surgeon General, NIH Director NomineesChicago, Illinois - March 26, 2002 - Center President John F. Kilner was invited by the White House to attend President Bush's introduction of the Administration's nominees for Surgeon General and director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Kilner attended along with several other dignitaries including Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and David Prentice, Science Advisor to Senator Sam Brownback. President Bush's nominee for Surgeon General was Richard Carmona, an Arizona trauma surgeon. Dr. Carmona, an Army Green Beret in Vietnam, made headlines nationwide in 1992 for rappelling from a helicopter to save a person stranded on a cliff. He started the trauma care system in southern Arizona in 1985 and has served as a SWAT team member with the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Elias Zerhouni, the President's nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health, comes from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he served at executive vice dean. Dr. Zerhouni is a radiologist who chaired the radiology department at Johns Hopkins. He has agreed to support the President's ethical position on cloning and stem cell research which includes a comprehensive ban on human embryo cloning and restriction of federal funding to only those embryonic cells from existing stem cells lines. Each nominee must now be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The White House ceremony lasted about an hour and was broadcast live on CNN. For interviews with Center personnel, contact Daniel McConchie at 847-317-8180 or by email at dmcconchie@cbhd.org. About The Center for Bioethics and Human DignityThe Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity is a 501(c) 3 non-profit think tank located in Chicago, Illinois. Its mission is to develop reasoned perspectives on all of today's bioethical issues and to disseminate them to health care professionals, academia, cultural and church leaders, public policy makers, and the media in order to protect human dignity. CBHD |
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