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David Shulkin
David Jonathon Shulkin (born July 22, 1959) is an American physician who served as the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2017 to 2018 under President Donald Trump, after serving as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 2015 to 2017, under President Barack Obama. On March 28, 2018, Trump dismissed Shulkin from his position by tweet, and announced that Physician to the President Ronny Jackson would be nominated as Shulkin's successor. (Jackson's nomination was withdrawn a month later.)
David Shulkin was born July 22, 1959, to Jewish parents Mark Weiss Shulkin and Sonya Lee Shulkin (née Edelman), at the Fort Sheridan U.S. Army base in Highland Park, Illinois where his father was an Army psychiatrist. Both of his grandfathers fought in World War I.
Shulkin earned a B.A. from Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 1982, followed by an M.D. degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania (which has since merged into Drexel University) in 1986. He then did his medical internship at Yale School of Medicine, and his residency and fellowship in General Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Medical Center. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
Shulkin specialized in health care management. He has been described as one of the "high priests" of patient centered care. Shulkin was the President and chief executive officer of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. While there, Shulkin would walk the wards after midnight after he discovered the night shift was providing a lower quality of care. He also was president of Morristown Medical Center and as vice president of Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization.
He was the first Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and later at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Temple University Hospital, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital.
His other academic positions have included Chairman of Medicine and Vice Dean at Drexel University College of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Shulkin has been the editor of Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management and Hospital Physician, and has been on the editorial boards of several journals, including Journal of the American Medical Association. He founded and served as the chairman and CEO of DoctorQuality, Inc., a consumer-oriented information service.
Shulkin has written several peer-reviewed journal articles and other professional publications. In 1999, Shulkin started a pay for performance company called DoctorQuality, which ultimately failed.
In 2015, Shulkin left the private sector when he was named by President Barack Obama as Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). When his staff told him it would take ten months to organize a summit on combat veteran suicides, Shulkin told them that during the wait 6,000 veterans would die and to get it done in one month, which they then did.
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David Shulkin
David Jonathon Shulkin (born July 22, 1959) is an American physician who served as the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2017 to 2018 under President Donald Trump, after serving as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 2015 to 2017, under President Barack Obama. On March 28, 2018, Trump dismissed Shulkin from his position by tweet, and announced that Physician to the President Ronny Jackson would be nominated as Shulkin's successor. (Jackson's nomination was withdrawn a month later.)
David Shulkin was born July 22, 1959, to Jewish parents Mark Weiss Shulkin and Sonya Lee Shulkin (née Edelman), at the Fort Sheridan U.S. Army base in Highland Park, Illinois where his father was an Army psychiatrist. Both of his grandfathers fought in World War I.
Shulkin earned a B.A. from Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 1982, followed by an M.D. degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania (which has since merged into Drexel University) in 1986. He then did his medical internship at Yale School of Medicine, and his residency and fellowship in General Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Medical Center. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
Shulkin specialized in health care management. He has been described as one of the "high priests" of patient centered care. Shulkin was the President and chief executive officer of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. While there, Shulkin would walk the wards after midnight after he discovered the night shift was providing a lower quality of care. He also was president of Morristown Medical Center and as vice president of Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization.
He was the first Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and later at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Temple University Hospital, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital.
His other academic positions have included Chairman of Medicine and Vice Dean at Drexel University College of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Shulkin has been the editor of Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management and Hospital Physician, and has been on the editorial boards of several journals, including Journal of the American Medical Association. He founded and served as the chairman and CEO of DoctorQuality, Inc., a consumer-oriented information service.
Shulkin has written several peer-reviewed journal articles and other professional publications. In 1999, Shulkin started a pay for performance company called DoctorQuality, which ultimately failed.
In 2015, Shulkin left the private sector when he was named by President Barack Obama as Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). When his staff told him it would take ten months to organize a summit on combat veteran suicides, Shulkin told them that during the wait 6,000 veterans would die and to get it done in one month, which they then did.