During the 2008 presidential campaign Murthy and colleagues founded Doctors for Obama, which morphed into Doctors for America, an organization to improve access to health care.

After medical school, Murthy launched TrialNetworks, social media platforms to enhance communication, collaboration, and efficiency in clinical trials. At Harvard, he trained American college students to teach students in India about HIV/AIDS, and started a community health partnership in rural India that trained young women to be health educators and basic health care providers. As a high school student, he paired his classmates with middle school students in a mentoring program. Those accomplishments began in Miami, where Murthy grew up. Noting Murthy’s prior accomplishments, Biden added, “Nobody should do that much so young. “What a group of underachievers,” he said of the Murthy family, three of whom are doctors, to laughter from the hundreds assembled in the auditorium at Ft. “When the grandson of a farmer in India is asked by the president to protect the health and welfare of people in this country and around the world … pretty incredible.”īiden could not resist some gentle ribbing. “This is an example of what makes this such an exceptional, exceptional country,” Biden said. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps where he will also serve as vice admiral, Murthy, 37, was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden. Each of us has a part to play in building a stronger and healthier America.”ĭuring the ceremony that also marked the change of command at the 6,700-strong U.S. And that is the sort of coalition we must activate and expand in order to fulfill our mission. “If my improbable journey to this podium demonstrates anything,” he said, “it is that it took family and friends, teachers and coaches, employers and advocates, community leaders and elected officials to get us to this place.

He observed how unlikely it was that the grandson of a rural farmer in India would become the nation’s surgeon general.

Murthy returned to the theme of community throughout his remarks on April 22 after his swearing in as the nation’s 19th surgeon general. That was the moment when I decided to become a physician.” Not the kind of family that is chosen for you, but the kind that you choose for yourself. “Their life paths were so different, and yet in that moment they were family. “I will never forget seeing my mother in her traditional Indian sari holding Ruth as she cried on the front steps of her home,” Murthy said. Cancer had taken one of his father’s patients and left a widow to grieve alone.

’03, recalls a night from his youth when his parents woke him and his sister and took them to a trailer park.

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