Surgeon Tapped As Top Pentagon Doctor
April 22 2010
President Obama has selected an Army reserve brigadier general to become the assistant secretary of defense (health affairs) position, the Army Times reports.
Jonathan Woodson, currently an associate professor of surgery and associate dean at Boston University School of Medicine, was nominated for the vacant position.
If confirmed by the Senate, Woodson would replace S. Ward Casscells, who left the Pentagon in April 2009. Charles Rice, president of Uniformed Services...
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