Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. is a top national medical expert and
leader who has been a major force in bringing important public health
issues including women'
s health, mental illness, and disease and
violence prevention to scientific and public attention. A women's
health hero, it was Dr. Blumenthal's vision to establish this
important website just for college women in her role as Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at Brandeis University, and she has directed all
aspects of its development. Her advice, direction and expertise have
been instrumental to its development and success.
Dr. Blumenthal also serves as Rear Admiral in the USPHS and US Assistant Surgeon General.
She is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown and
Tufts University Schools of Medicine. A pioneer in the women's health
field, from 1994-1997 Rear Admiral Blumenthal served as the
country's first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's
Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where
she was instrumental in moving women's health to the forefront of
our country's national healthcare agenda. Her accomplishments
include establishing The National Women's Health Resource Center
(which can be contacted at 800-994-WOMAN or found at www.4woman.gov),
the National Centers of Excellence on Women's Health at academic
health centers, conceiving the "Missiles to Mammograms"
technology transfer initiative to improve breast cancer detection, and
ensuring that our national prevention and research programs target
women's unique needs. She has also served as an advisor to The
White House on public health issues. Assistant Surgeon General
Blumenthal has been named by the New York Times as one of the top
twelve doctors in the women's health field, by the Ladies Home
Journal as one of the ten most important women doctors in the country,
and by the Medical Herald as one of the twenty most influential women
in medicine.
