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    President Biden Names USU Nursing Alumna as Acting U.S. Surgeon General

    President Biden Names USU Nursing Alumna as Acting U.S. Surgeon General

    Courtesy Photo | President Joe Biden has appointed Rear Adm. Susan Orsega, director of the USPHS...... read more read more

    BETHESDA, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES

    02.09.2021

    Story by Sharon Holland 

    Uniformed Services University

    President Joe Biden is filling key administration positions, and many still await Senate confirmation, including Dr. Vivek Murthy, who served as U.S. Surgeon General under former President Barack Obama, and who has been nominated for the post again. Until confirmation hearings can be held and his nomination cleared, the President has appointed Rear Adm. Susan Orsega to bridge the gap as the nation’s top healthcare advisor.

    Orsega, who graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing (GSN) in 2001, is director of the 6,100-officer U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps. She is responsible for overseeing the personnel, operations, readiness, deployment and policies pertaining to the USPHS Commissioned Corps.

    The first GSN alumnus to reach the rank of rear admiral, Orsega, a nurse practitioner, has a wealth of experience. She was principal advisor to former Surgeon General Vice Adm. Jerome Adams on issues pertaining to Commissioned Corps training, deployment and total force fitness.
    As the former Chief Nurse Officer of the U.S. Public Health Service, she advised Adams and Murthy, and former acting Surgeon General Rear. Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, on recruitment, deployment and career development for nursing, while leading more than 4,500 uniformed U.S. Public Health Service and Health and Human Services department nurses. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

    Orsega also has extensive experience in management of public health emergencies and infectious diseases, including Ebola, HIV/AIDS and other emerging infections. In 2015, she was appointed to the NIH/NIAID Ebola trial operations team, responsible for making sure that the first Ebola human vaccine and treatment trials in Liberia and Sierra Leone were successfully implemented at a time when the Ebola transmission rates were catastrophic. Currently, she is leading Commissioned Corps personnel in a historic deployment of officers in support of COVID-19.

    “Rear Adm. Orsega is an outstanding officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, a skilled nurse practitioner, a global research investigator and an effective public health leader,” said Dr. Carol Romano, dean of the Graduate School of Nursing at USU. “We are proud that as an alum of USU, she epitomizes excellence in public service and commitment to improving the health of our nation.”

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    Date Taken: 02.09.2021
    Date Posted: 02.09.2021 09:09
    Story ID: 388658
    Location: BETHESDA, MARYLAND, US

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