Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
| Jesse Leonard Steinfeld | |
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| 11th Surgeon General of the United States | |
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In office 18 December 1969 – 30 June 1973 |
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| President | Richard M. Nixon |
| Preceded by | William H. Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Julius B. Richmond |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 January 1927 Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Died | 5 August 2014 (aged 87) Pomona, California, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Children | Susan Steinfeld |
| Alma mater |
University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University |
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld (January 6, 1927 – August 5, 2014) was an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the eleventh Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973.
Steinfeld was born in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb of West Aliquippa. He received his B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1945 and his M.D. degree from Western Reserve University (now called Case Western Reserve University) in 1949. Steinfeld then completed an internship at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles and residencies at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California and at the University of California, San Francisco in the Laboratory of Experimental Oncology.
Steinfeld became instructor in medicine at the University of California, San Francisco in 1952. From 1954 to 1958, he served as director of the Radioisotope Laboratory of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and simultaneously held an appointment as instructor in medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. In 1959, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Medicine as assistant professor of medicine, rising through the ranks to associate professor in 1963 and professor in 1967. His research interests focused on cancer.
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