Dr. Vivek Murthy was confirmed by the US Senate as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. Murthy is co-founder of Doctors for America (formerly Doctor for Obama) and succeeds Acting Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak.

Murthy was born to a Kannada speaking family; his parents are originally from Karnataka, India. He was born in Huddersfield, England, but his family relocated to Miami, Florida when he was three years old. Murthy completed his early education in Miami, graduating as valedictorian from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1994. He then attended college at Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in three years with a bachelors degree in Biochemical Sciences. Murthy received an MD from Yale School of Medicine and an MBA in Health Care Management from Yale School of Management in 2003, where he was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine in 2006 from Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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