r2,
I was not sure whether you intended "past 5" to include the current
Physician to the President; in addition, I was not sure whether you
wanted the previous 5 Physicians to the President, or all the
Physicians to the previous 5 Presidents (Reagan had three different
Physicians), so I just included all Physicians to the President from
George W. Bush back to Richard M. Nixon.
Thank you for your patience while I tried to track all this
information down. I was quite surprised to discover how difficult it
was to do so. While the White House site and Presidential Library
sites for past Presidents have information about the people who held
various high-ranking positions under each President, as well as the
dates and the details of their tenures, this is not the case for the
Physicians to the President.
The overwhelming majority of references to the Presidents' personal
physicians appear in press releases related to actual specific health
issues for each President (think pretzels, polyps, etc). I found only
ONE press release announcing that a new Physician to the President had
been appointed. I thought this was extremely odd; then I finally
realized that the strange absence of mentions of the Presidents'
physicians is probably due to these men's sensitivity to the idea that
the slightest intimation of a health problem might call their fitness
for duty into question. They are NOT going to mention their Physician
on their own. They don't want people even thinking about why they
might need the services of a physician.
So... to get the information you requested, I culled through a large
quantity of press releases to get the names of the people who have
served as Physician to the President, then made phone calls and sent
e-mails to the various Presidential libraries asking about dates of
service. I used further web searches by each physician's name to
determine where they are and what they are doing now.
Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH
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Frequently referred to as "President Bush's Personal Physician": while
he has been George W. Bush's personal physician since 1990, he does
not hold the title "Physician to the President"; however, it would
appear that Bush makes use of Cooper's services far more than he does
those of his official physician, Richard Tubb.
"Record Day in Dallas Begins With Words from Kenneth Cooper",
JPMorganChase Corporate Challenge news release (April 8, 2002)
"Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, 71, is President George W. Bush's personal
physician and works out on a daily basis. He runs the Cooper Aerobics
Center in Dallas, is the author of 18 books on personal fitness and is
a household name through his native Texas, if not the world."
http://www.chasecc.com/races/dal/dalhome02.htm
Contact information for Dr. Cooper:
The Cooper Institute
12330 Preston Road
Dallas Texas 75230
phone: (972) 341-3200
fax: (972) 341-3227
Email courses@cooperinst.org
http://www.cooperinst.org
Richard J. Tubb, MD, Colonel, MC, USAF, SFS (June 2001 to present)
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Official Physician to President George W. Bush
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20500
202-456-1414
In addition, http://www.usuhs.mil/adm/catalog/chapt7.pdf shows Dr.Tubb
as an Adjunct Assistant Professor on the Faculty of the Uniformed
University of the Health Sciences as of January 2001, and he can
probably be reached through them as well:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-295-3770
Interestingly, Richard J. Tubb (Maj., USAF) of Lebanon, IL was invited
to NASA to interview as a prospective astronaut in 1991 and again in
1994:
"FIRST GROUP OF PROSPECTIVE ASTRONAUTS TO ARRIVE AT JSC [Johnson Space
Center]" by Barbara Schwartz (December 3, 1991)
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.News/NASA.News.Releases/Previous.News.Releases/91.News.Releases/91-12.News.Releases/91-12-01
"FOURTH GROUP TO ARRIVE FOR ASTRONAUT INTERVIEWS" by Kyle Herring
(August 3, 1994)
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.News/NASA.News.Releases/Previous.News.Releases/94.News.Releases/94-08.News.Releases/94-08-03
Eleanor "Connie" Mariano, MD, Admiral, USN Medical Corps (June 1992 to
June 2001)
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Physician to Presidents George W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton and
George Bush
"First Doctor: Clinton's physician, a San Diegan (Imperial Beach, CA)
to be honored by UCSD", by Leslie Wolf Branscomb, San Diego
Union-Tribune (June 17, 2000)
"Though she began as physician to President Bush, President Clinton
asked her to stay when he took office. Such tours of duty normally
last two years, but Clinton extended her service for as long as he is
in office."
http://www.cityofib.com/news.htm
"Former Physician to Three U.S. Presidents Joins Staff of Executive
Health Program at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale"
(September 07, 2001)
http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2001-sct/1166.html
Contact information for Dr. Marciano:
Mayo Clinic
13400 East Shea Blvd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85259
phone: (480) 301-8000
fax: (480) 301-7006
http://www.mayoclinic.org
Burton J. Lee III, MD (January 1989 to June 1992)
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Physician to President George H. W. Bush
Now retired, Dr. Lee was formerly Senior Attending Physician on the
Lymphoma Service at (and can be reached through):
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
(212) 639-2000
John E. Hutton Jr., MD, Colonel, US Army (January 1, 1987 to January
1989)
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Physician to President Ronald Reagan
According to the National Institutes of Health Office of Science
Education, Dr. Hutton is currently available as a speaker on "Health
Care for U.S. Presidents, General Surgery, Surgery for Stroke and
Abdominal Aneurisms, Care of Battlefield Injuries, Care of Shark
Bites". (!)
http://science.education.nih.gov/spkbureau.nsf/SpkList/2ECF9EED0279861885256A8700543371?opendocument
Office of Science Education
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
(301) 496-4000
The NIH site also says that Dr. Hutton is currently Professor of
Clinical Surgery, F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences and Chief, Division of
General Surgery, Department of Surgery, USUHS, Bethesda, MD
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-295-3770
T. Burton Smith, MD (January 2, 1985 to December 31, 1986)
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Physician to President Ronald Reagan
Dr. Smith came out of retirement to become White House Physician. This
press release announces the appointment of Dr. Smith as Physician to
the President, as well as the appointments of Drs. Hutton and Lee as
Assistant White House physicians:
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1985/10485a.htm
I was unable to find current information for Dr. Smith. However, I was
also unable to find an obituary for him, so I believe that he is still
alive. In 1992 he published a book entitled "White House Doctor", and
according to the rear flap of the book, he was then a member of the
Board of Regents for USUHS in Bethesda, MD, so I'm sure they would be
able to forward something on to him today.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0819186252/102-7628675-1768136
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-295-3770
Daniel A. Ruge, MD (January 21, 1981 to January 1, 1985)
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Physician to President Ronald Reagan
When he left the White House, Dr. Ruge returned to the Veterans
Administration central office as Director of its Spinal Cord Injury
Service.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1985/10485a.htm
I was unable to find current information for Dr. Ruge, either.
However, I was also unable to find an obituary for him, so I believe
that he is still alive. He can probably be contacted through:
Washington DC VA Medical Center
Spinal Cord Injury Service
50 Irving Street, NW
Washington, DC 20422
(202) 745-8000
Fax: (202) 754-8530
Dr. Ruge can also be contacted through:
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
5550 Meadowbrook Drive
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
(847) 378-0500 or toll-free (888) 566-2267
Fax: (847) 378-0600
E-mail: info@aans.org
www.aans.org
William M. Lukash, MD, Rear Admiral, USN (September 16, 1974 to
January 20, 1981)
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Physician to Presidents James Earl Carter and Gerald R. Ford
E-mail to me from Albert Nason, Archivist, Jimmy Carter Library
(October 31, 2002)
"The personal physician for President Jimmy Carter the entire four
years of his administration was Rear Admiral Walter M. Lukash, an
internist, of the US Navy. Dr Lukash had been on White House
assignment since 1966, first as a deputy White House physician, then
elevated to personal physician under President Gerald Ford. Carter
asked him to remain on as Carter's personal physician."
Dr. Lukash's obituary from the University of Pennsylvania Gazette:
"Dr. William M. Lukash, GM'65, La Jolla, Calif., former chair of
gastroenterology (from 1966 to 1981) at the Naval Medical Center in
Bethesda, Md., who, as White House physician, had treated four
Presidents; [died] February 3 [1997]."
http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0998/0998obits.html
Walter Robert Tkach, Major General (January 1969 to Sept. 15, 1974)
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Physician to President Richard M. Nixon
USAF Biography: Major General Walter Robert Tkach
"MAJOR GENERAL WALTER ROBERT TKACH - Retired March 1979, Died Oct. 31,
1989"
http://www.af.mil/news/biographies/tkach_wr.html
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The Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia has a
special exhibit entitled "When the President is the Patient" located
on the south side of the Mütter Room. You can see it here by using
your cursor to pan around the 360 degree shot of the room (look for
the red, white, and blue bunting) [QuickTime 5 is required to see the
panoramic shots; it can be downloaded at
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download ].
"On the south side of the room, "When The President Is The Patient"
tells the compelling story of American presidents and their health
problems. Here you can learn about George Washington's carbuncle and
Andrew Jackson's dueling wounds, as well as the disabling strokes of
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fatal hypertension.
Highlights include a specimen from Presidential assassin John Wilkes
Booth and the jaw tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland in a
secret 1893 operation."
http://www.collphyphil.org/virt_tour/museum_5.htm
Contact information for the Mütter Museum:
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-563-3737
Fax: 215-561-6477
muttref@collphyphil.org
215-563-3737 extension 242
There is a great series of pages on the Mütter Museum's exhibit at
Health Media Lab's website:
http://www.healthmedialab.com/presmed/p10.html
Search Strategy
"personal physician to the president" -kennedy
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"president's personal physician" -kennedy
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"Kenneth * Cooper" physician
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"Richard * Tubb" -pretzel -pretzels -faints -fainted -fainting
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Mariano physician President
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"John * Hutton" physician
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"Burton Smith" physician
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Ruge physician president
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"William * Lukash" physician
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Tkach president physician
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"presidential library and museum"
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AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance; Yellow Pages, White Pages,
Toll-Free Numbers, Maps and Directions
http://www.anywho.com
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