Karen DeSalvo
| Karen DeSalvo | |
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| Acting Assistant Secretary for Health | |
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Assumed office October 2014 |
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| Preceded by | ONC Chief Medical Officer Jacob Reider, Acting for 3 months following October 2013 resignation of Farzad Mostashari |
| Assistant Secretary for Health | |
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Assumed office May 7, 2015 |
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Karen DeSalvo is a physician and public health expert who currently serves as the Assistant Secretary for Health, former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and former Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), a staff division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the executive branch of the United States Government.
DeSalvo received her MD and MPH from Tulane University, and subsequently served as Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy there. DeSalvo previously served as New Orleans Health Commissioner and New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu’s Senior Health Policy Advisor. In her role as National Coordinator, DeSalvo reported directly to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of HHS.
since October 2014 DeSalvo had served as an acting Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and on May 7, 2015, she was officially nominated.
On August 11, 2016, it was announced that she was resigning as head of the National Coordinator for Health IT to continue as Assistant Secretary of Health.
Dr. Karen DeSalvo Acting Assistant Secretary for Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Huffington Post, n.d.. retrieved 21 Feb 17
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