Thursday, February 8, 2007

Former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop to Address Anchor & Caduceus Society Luncheon

Former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop to Address Anchor & Caduceus Society Luncheon

Former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop will be addressing the Anchor & Caduceus Society annual luncheon to commemorate the 116th Anniversary of the founding of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The luncheon, scheduled for Tuesday, January 4th, 2005 in Rockville MD, is open to all persons interested in public health. Space is limited and reservations must be made by 30 December 2004 to guarantee seating. VADM Michael Cowan, MC, USN (Ret.), former Surgeon General of the Navy, will deliver the 13th Annual C. Everett Koop Honorary Lecture. Details are as follows.

(PRWEB) December 5, 2004

The PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation for the Advancement of Public Health is pleased to join with the Anchor and Caduceus Society and the DC Metro Branch of the Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association to present the annual luncheon commemorating the 116th Anniversary of the founding of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The luncheon, on Tuesday, January 4th, 2005, will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Rockville, MD from 11:30AM to 1:30PM. VADM Michael Cowan, MC, USN (Ret.), former Surgeon General of the Navy, will deliver the 13th Annual C. Everett Koop Honorary Lecture. Legendary U. S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop will offer opening remarks. Dr. Koop was Surgeon General and Commander of the PHS Commissioned Corps from 1981 to 1989 during the Reagan administration.

The luncheon is open to all persons interested in public health. Cost is $25 per person and reservations are being accepted by the Commissioned Officers Foundation. Checks may be made out to the Anchor and Caduceus Society or the Commissioned Officers Foundation and mailed to the PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation, 8201 Corporate Drive – Suite 200, Landover, MD 20785. Credit card payments may also be used to secure a reservation by calling the Foundation at 301-731-9080. Space is limited and reservations must be made by 30 December 2004 to guarantee seating.

The PHS Commissioned Corps is a highly trained cadre of 6,000 uniformed officers who are experienced, mobile health professionals working in the eight agencies of the Public Health Service as well as other federal agencies that require their expertise.

Members of the Commissioned Corps serve wherever there is a need for their specialized skills. Officers are stationed in all 50 states, at more than 550 locations including remote Indian reservations and Federal prisons. Corps officers can be called to duty 24 hours a day and have responded on numerous occasions to public health emergencies. Hundreds of PHS officers were ordered to assist with hurricane relief operations in Florida in September, 2004 and PHS officers serve today alongside their Armed Services comrades in both Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.

The PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation is non-profit charitable organization dedicated to advancing public health through education and activities supporting the mission of the PHS Commissioned Corps.

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