Barry Maram and Antonia Novello were among this year's recipients of the National Governors Association's Distinguished Service Award to State Government.Barry Maram, director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS (Hierarchical File System) The file system used in the Macintosh. The first version, known as "Mac OS Standard," was introduced in 1985. HFS+, an enhanced version, came out in 1998 in preparation for the upcoming Mac OS X operating system. ), and Antonia Novello Antonia Coello Novello (born Antonia Coello, August 23, 1944 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico), served as the United States Surgeon General from 1990 to 1993. Novello received her B.S. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in 1965 and her M.D. , commissioner of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Department of Health, were among this year's recipients of the National Governors Association's Distinguished Service Award to State Government. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Maram became the first state official from Illinois to receive the award since 1994. As director of HFS, formerly known as the Illinois Department of Public Aid, Maram has helped to ensure that Illinois is expanding access to healthcare among the state's working families, to transform the state's child support enforcement system through reorganization and new technology, and to coordinate a statewide hospital assessment that brought millions of dollars back to Illinois. Novello became the 13th state health commissioner in 1999. From 1979 to 1990, she worked for the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health, where she served in various capacities, rising to deputy director of the NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. . She was the first female and first Hispanic to be surgeon general The U.S. Surgeon General is charged with the protection and advancement of health in the United States. Since the 1960s the surgeon general has become a highly visible federal public health official, speaking out against known health risks such as tobacco use, and promoting disease of the United States, appointed by President Bush in 1990 and serving until 1993. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion