Boris Lushniak
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| Surgeon General of the United States Acting | |
| In office July 17, 2013 – December 15, 2014 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Regina Benjamin |
| Succeeded by | Vivek Murthy |
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| Born | 1961[1] Chicago, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University (MD) Harvard University |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch/service | U.S. Public Health Service |
| Years of service | 1988–2015 |
| Rank | Rear Admiral |
| Unit | USPHS Commissioned Corps |
Boris Lushniak is a retired United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps rear admiral who served as the acting Surgeon General of the United States, from July 17, 2013 to December 18, 2014. He previously served as the Deputy Surgeon General from 2010 to 2013 and from 2014 to 2015 when Vivek Murthy assumed office as Surgeon General. He retired from the Public Health Service on December 8, 2015 after over 27 years of service. On October 4, 2016 he was appointed dean of the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health, effective January 9, 2017.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]A native of Chicago, Illinois, Lushniak was born in 1961[1] to post-World War II immigrants from Ukraine.[3] He attended St. Ignatius College Prep, graduating in 1977.[4]
He attended Northwestern University, receiving a BS in Medicine in 1981, and an MD from Northwestern University Medical School in 1983.[2] He then received an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 1984.[2]
He completed a residency in family medicine in 1987 at St Joseph Hospital in Chicago and a residency in dermatology at the University of Cincinnati in 1993.[3]
Career
[edit]U.S. public health career
[edit]Starting out at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention {CDC} in the Epidemic Intelligence Service in 1988,[5] Lushniak spent the next 16 years with the CDC, working on assignments in Russia, Kosovo and Bangladesh.[5] as well as working at the World Trade Center site[5] and with the CDC anthrax team.[5]
Lushniak joined the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004 as the Chief Medical Officer of the Office of Counterterrorism,[5] before being named FDA Assistant Commissioner for Counterterrorism Policy[2] and Director of the Office of Counterterrorism within the Office of the Commissioner in 2005.[6] In 2010 he was promoted to rear admiral (upper half) and named Deputy Surgeon General.[3] Between July 2013 and December 2014 he served as Acting Surgeon General,[2] until the appointment of Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General of the United States was approved December 15, 2014.[7]
From January to March 2015 he served as commander of the USPHS Monrovia Medical Unit in Liberia, which was the only U.S. government hospital providing care to Ebola patients.[8]
Post-government career
[edit]Retiring from the USPHS in September 2015, Lushniak joined the faculty of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.[9] He served as the chairman of the Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics department.[9]
In January 2017 he became the dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Health.[8][2]
Awards and decorations
[edit]Lushniak is the recipient of the following awards and decorations:[10]
- Uniformed services awards and decorations
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Personal life
[edit]Lushniak is married with two daughters, is active in the Ukrainian-American community and is member of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, serving at youth camps for Ukrainian scouts in Wisconsin and New York.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "No label defined".
- ^ a b c d e f "Faculty and staff University of Maryland School of Public Health". Retrieved July 27, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Biography of the Deputy Surgeon General Rear Admiral (RADM) Boris D. Lushniak, M.D., M.P.H." U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Archived from the original on December 27, 2014. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
- ^ "Notable Alumni". Saint Ignatius College Prep. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF02/20141118/102739/HHRG-113-IF02-Bio-LushniakB-20141118.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Speaker Biographical Sketches". Cross-Sector Responses to Obesity: Models for Change: Workshop Summary. National Academies Press (US). 9 June 2015.
- ^ "Finally, a New Surgeon General". The Atlantic. December 15, 2014. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ a b "Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators". Building a National Capability to Monitor and Assess Medical Countermeasure Use During a Public Health Emergency: Going Beyond the Last Mile: Proceedings of a Workshop. National Academies Press (US). 31 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Dr. Boris Lushniak to join Hébert School of Medicine academic leadership team". health.mil. Defense Health Agency. Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ "3rd Annual Power of Inclusion Conference Program Speakers". Loma Linda University Health. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
- ^ "Biography of Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak". My Travel Plans 4U. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
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