David Satcher - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

He is the recipient of many honorary degrees and numerous distinguished honors, including the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal and top awards from the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and Ebony magazine. In 1995, he received the Breslow Award in Public Health and in 1997 the New York Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, he received the Benjamin E. Mays Trailblazer Award and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. An academic society at the Case Western School of Medicine is named in his honor.

He is also an avid jogger and enjoys tennis, gardening, and reading. He and his wife, Nola, have four adult children.

Satcher delivered the Commencement Address at Case Western Reserve University in May 2009.

On May 26, 2011, Dr. Satcher was honored at the 360th Harvard University commencement where received the honorary degree, Doctor of Science.

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