Английская Википедия:David Axelrod (physician)

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David Axelrod (1935–1994) was a New York physician and bureaucrat.

Career

After obtaining his medical degree from Harvard in 1960, he served a two-year residency in Rochester. He then worked for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland as a virus research scientist until joining the New York State Department of Health in 1968.[1]

He was Health Commissioner for the State of New York in the 1980s and 1990s. He was appointed by Governor Hugh Carey and served under Governor Mario Cuomo as well.[1] He is considered to be the nation's foremost public health official of the 1980s. [2]

He worked on issues of regulating doctors and hospitals, the confidentiality of AIDS patients, anti-smoking legislation and universal health insurance.[1]

In the 1980s, Axelrod collaborated with the President of the University at Albany, SUNY to establish the School of Public Health.[3] The university named a fellowship after him.[4]

Death

His career ended after suffering a stroke in February 1991 and he died three years later.[1]

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