States Congress, the recommendations of the report were not implemented. During Steinfeld's tenure as surgeon general, two important new Public Health Service programs were established, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Health Service Corps. As a specialist in the field of cancer, Steinfeld also no doubt welcomed the passage of the National Cancer Act of 1971, which enhanced the ability of the Public Health Service to combat this deadly disease. Later career At the beginning of the second Richard Nixon administration, Steinfeld resigned as surgeon general effective 30 January 1973. He then served as director of the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center and as professor of medicine at the Mayo Medical School (1973–1974). Following that, Steinfeld was professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine and chief of medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California, from 1974 to 1976. He then served as dean and professor of medicine at the School of Medicine of the Medical College of Virginia from 1976 to 1983. Steinfeld became president of the Medical College of Georgia in 1983, a position that he held until his retirement in 1987. Death Steinfeld died on August 5, 2014, from complications from a stroke in Pomona, California, aged 87. References Other websites 1927 births 2014 deaths People from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Surgeons General of the United States University of Pittsburgh alumni Pennsylvania Republicans University of California, San Francisco faculty 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews