Columbia Physician and Pediatrics Professor to Receive Prized White House Fellowship
Dr. Howard Zucker, associate professor of clinical pediatrics and clinical anesthesiology at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and SPA member, has been selected for this year's White House Fellowship program, widely recognized as one of America's premier programs for leadership and public service. Dr. Zucker was chosen from an applicant pool of approximately 700 for one of only 12 available spots. The White House Fellowship program is a nonpartisan program designed to provide Americans from all professions an opportunity to experience first hand the workings of the federal government by being assigned to a cabinet member or other senior executive branch official. Dr. Zucker's interest is in health care policy, and in the many areas where law and medicine interface. He hopes to learn about the intricacies of the decision making in Washington and to share his experiences.
Since 1964, the White House Fellowship program has offered outstanding young Americans the opportunity to participate in the day-to-day business of governing the nation. Individuals work full time as either a special assistant to a cabinet member or to a senior presidential advisor _ and participate in an education program designed to nurture and develop leadership skills. Previous White House fellows include Secretary of State Colin Powell, U.S. senator Sam Brownback, Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot, and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Dr. Zucker, a member of the SPA since its inception, was chosen as ABC World News Tonight's "Person of the Week" in 1993, and has been listed in Best Doctors in American for the past five years. He is board-certified in pediatric cardiology, critical care, and anesthesiology. While still in college, Dr. Zucker worked at McGill University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA astronauts designing experiments for the Space Shuttle program. Dr. Zucker is a founding member of the Little Hearts Foundation and has traveled on medical missions to China with the Children of China Pediatrics Foundation, helping orphans in need of reconstructive surgery. He is looking forward to this once in a lifetime opportunity and hopes to gain useful insight into healthcare policy making.
For more information about the White House Fellowship program,
go to www.whitehousefellows.gov
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