That’s Surgeon General — and it’s Steve Galston (Rear Admiral Steve Galston, to be specific), not Sanjay Gupta.
Peter Pitts, of the Center for Medicine and the Public Interest and of DrugWonks.com, has more, saying:
The former is interesting and unquestionably telegenic — but the latter is highly qualified and, as it happens, the current Acting Surgeon General and a career United States Public Health Service officer.
Prior to his appointment as Acting Surgeon General, Steve Galson served as the Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As the director, RADM Galson oversaw CDER’s broad national and international programs in pharmaceutical regulation and provided leadership for 2300 physicians, statisticians, chemists, pharmacologists and other scientists, as well as administrators whose work promoted and protected public health by ensuring that safe and effective drugs are available to the American public.
Read more at DrugWonks.

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