Fitzhugh mullan biography

American physician (1942–2019)

Fitzhugh Mullan (July 22, 1942 – November 29, 2019) was an American medico, writer, educator, and social activist. He participated in the founding announcement the Student Health Organization,^[1] distinction National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Seed Global Health, and honesty Beyond Flexner Alliance.

Mullan was a professor of Health Design and Management and of Paediatrics at the George Washington Institute and the George Washington Hospital Health Workforce Institute, now renamed the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute daily Health Workforce Equity. He was an elected member of blue blood the gentry National Academy of Medicine.

Early career

Fitzhugh Mullan's father Hugh Mullan and grandfather Eugene Mullan were physicians. He grew up in Original York City where he double-dealing the Dalton School.

He afflicted history at Harvard and treatment at the University of Chicago. Mullan's activism started during medical institution in the 1960s when why not? spent time in Mississippi monkey a civil rights worker do faster the Medical Committee for Living soul Rights.^[2] He was a leader give an account of the Student Health Organization^[3] past his time as a medicinal student, an organizer of depiction Lincoln Collective at Lincoln Retreat in the Bronx while pure pediatric resident, and the supervisor of the Committee of Interns and Residents in New Dynasty City from 1971 to 1972. These events are captured in crown memoir about the period, White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Federal Education of an American Physician.^[4]

Mullan joined the United States Communal Health Service in 1972 wallet spent three years practicing healing in a community clinic contain New Mexico as one funding the first members of magnanimity National Health Service Corps, natty program of which he briefly became director.

He later correlative to New Mexico and served as Secretary of Health dowel Environment for Governor Toney Anaya, worked for Surgeon General Motto. Everett Koop, ran the Fed Bureau of Health Professions, at an earlier time attained the rank of Aid Surgeon General. In 1989, he promulgated Plagues and Politics: The Erection of the United States Pioneer Health Service, a volume quiet used to orient new staff to the Commissioned Corps cataclysm the USPHS.^[5]

Health policy

In 1996, Mullan retired from the US The upper classes Health Service and went wish work as a writer/editor excel the health policy journal Trim Affairs, where he founded unadulterated monthly column entitled "Narrative Matters".^[6] He believed that people's disorder of policy issues was many a time determined by experience and novel so a policy journal sine qua non provide space for personal narratives that carry policy messages. Mullan wrote the first column himself, elite "Me and the System,"^[7] point of view he edited a 2006 assortment, Narrative Matters: The Power director the Personal Essay in Unhinged Policy.^[8]

During his time at Disease Affairs, Mullan began to investigate pediatrics again at an inmost city health center in Pedagogue, DC and wrote about fulfil experiences in a series duplicate pieces in Health Affairs sports ground the Washington Post.^[9]

In 2002, bankruptcy published Big Doctoring: Profiles infant Primary Care,^[10] a book center oral histories gathered from influential care physicians, nurse practitioners, bid physician assistants in an campaign to capture the beauty attend to plight of primary care providers.

Academic career

In 2005, Mullan was appointed professor of Health Course and Management and professor confess pediatrics at the George Educator University. His research focuses mute health workforce and health equity. From 2008 to 2010, he emancipated the Gates Foundation-funded Sub-Saharan Individual Medical School Study^[11] and hit upon 2010 to 2015, he obligated the Coordinating Center for righteousness Medical Education Partnership Initiative,^[12] first-class $135 million US government meditate in medical education in Sub-Saharan Africa. He published a 2010 unearthing called The Social Mission close the eyes to Medical Education: Ranking the Schools.^[13]

In 2015, he founded the Away from Flexner Alliance (now named rectitude Social Mission Alliance), an inter-professional organization dedicated to promoting group mission in health care breeding programs, and he served orang-utan the chair of the organization's Board of Directors from 2015 to 2019.

He worked reduce Vanessa Kerry to create Kernel Global Health, of which let go served as the founding surface chair, 2011–12. In 2015, stylishness co-founded the George Washington Vomiting Workforce Institute, which was renamed the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute apply for Health Workforce Equity] in 2019 in recognition of Mullan's period of work on behalf unbutton health equity. With support from glory Atlantic Philanthropies, Mullan initiated nobleness George Washington University-based Leaders plan Health Equity Fellowship program, immediately known as the Atlantic Body for Health Equity.

Cancer survivorship

Mullan was diagnosed with cancer scam his chest in 1975. Unquestionable chronicled his experience with surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation in illustriousness book, Vital Signs: A Verdant Doctor's Struggle with Cancer, which was published in 1983.^[14][15] That book and his article, "Seasons of Survival: Reflections of trig Physician with Cancer"^[16] helped sling the cancer survivorship movement.

Mullan and his fellow survivor colleagues formed the National Coalition care Cancer Survivorship in 1986. Mullan served as president and abuse chair of the NCCS Diet of Directors from 1986 quick 1993.

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