DFA Round Up - April 14, 2018
DFA's 2018 National Leadership Conference This energy and commitment to our patients will culminate at DFA's National Leadership Conference that begins on June 1st. J… Continue Reading
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA STATEMENT ON CONFIRMATION OF SURGEON GENERAL VIVEK MURTHY
Washington, D.C. – Doctors for America issued the following statement on the confirmation of DFA President and co-founder, Dr. Vivek Murthy, as U.S. Surgeon General.
Statement from Doctors for America Chair Mona Mangat:
“We congratulate U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on his confirmation by the Senate. We are confident Dr. Murthy will embrace his new role with the same passion and vision that he has employed over the last twenty years to improve the health of communities at home and abroad.
“Dr. Murthy’s dedication for improving the health outcomes by engaging communities has been the backbone of his career and is the foundation on which he based Doctors for America, a movement of 16,000 physicians and medical students nationwide. And, it is the same approach we are certain he will bring to this new role to build health initiatives across the country to address the nation’s most pressing public health challenges.”
DFA's 2018 National Leadership Conference This energy and commitment to our patients will culminate at DFA's National Leadership Conference that begins on June 1st. J… Continue Reading
Washington, DC -- “Yet again, lives young and old are viciously taken by an all-too-permissive culture of gun violence in America. We stand in white coats - emergency room doct… Continue Reading
Physicians from Virginia delivered a petition to the office of Eric Cantor (R-VA) opposing proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid under ongoing debt ceiling negotiations.