jerome adams is the new surgeon general of the united states.
who is the new surgeon general of the united states?
jerome adams
the u.s. surgeon general is nominated by the president of the united states and confirmed by the senate. the surgeon general must be appointed from individuals who (1) are members of the regular corps of the u.s. public health service, and (2) have specialized training or significant experience in public health programs. the surgeon general serves a four-year term of office and, depending on whether the current assistant secretary for health is a public health service commissioned officer, is either the senior or next most senior uniformed officer of the commissioned corps, holding the rank of a vice admiral. the current surgeon general is jerome adams, having taken office on september 5, 2017.
surgeon general of the united states
in 1867, the library, along with the new surgeon general's office, was moved to ford's theatre, site of the tragic assassination of president abraham lincoln in april 1865. (the theater had been closed and remodelled in the intervening two years.) the new office/library site was taken over by the u.s. army to house a cluster of important post-civil war medical activities of the surgeon general's office. the most significant were the archive of civil war medical records (essential for verification of veterans' pension claims), the army medical museum (now the national museum of health and medicine), the editorial offices for preparation of the multi-volume "medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion", and the library of the surgeon general's office.
library of the surgeon general's office