Indian-American Vivek Murthy, 37, has administered the oath for the post of US Surgeon General by Vice President Joe Biden. Murthy became the youngest-ever in charge of the United States’ public health and he is the country’s 19th Surgeon General. Murthy is also the highest ranking Indian-American in the Barack Obama’s Administration. Murthy took the oath on Holy Gita at the Commissioning and Change of Command Ceremony. Now he carries the rank of Vice Admiral.
About Vivek Murthy
- Murthy was born in Huddersfield, England, to immigrants from Karnataka, India.
- When he was three years old, the family relocated to Miami, Florida
- Dr. Murthy received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
- He earned his medical degree and master’s in business administration at Yale University.
- He practiced internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
- In 2009 started a non-profit, Doctors for America, composed of thousands of doctors supporting President Barack Obama’s healthcare initiatives.
- He is co-founder and chairman of TrialNetworks, a cloud-based Clinical Trial Optimization System for pharmaceutical and biotechnology trials that improves the quality and efficiency of clinical trials to bring new drugs to market faster and more safely.
- He founded the company as Epernicus in 2008 to originally be a collaborative networking web platform for scientists to boost research productivity.
