    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [January 9, 1991]
    [Pages 24-25]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of Bernadine P. Healy To Be Director of the National
    Institutes of Health
    January 9, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Bernadine P.
    Healy, of Ohio, to be Director of the National Institutes of Health,
    Department of Health and Human Services. She would succeed James B.
    Wyngaarden.
        Since 1985 Dr. Healy has served as chairman of the research
    institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH. Prior to
    this Dr. Healy served as Deputy Director of the Office of Science and
    Technology Policy in Washington, DC, 1984-1985. Dr. Healy served as
    director of the coronary care unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in
    Baltimore, MD, 1977-1984, and as a member of the active staff in
    medicine and pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1976-1985. From
    1974 to 1984, Dr. Healy served with the Johns Hopkins Uni-

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    versity School of Medicine in several capacities: professor of medicine,
    associate professor of pathology, assistant dean for postdoctoral
    programs and faculty development, associate professor of medicine,
    assistant professor of medicine and pathology, fellow in the department
    of pathology, and as a fellow in the cardiovascular division of the
    department of medicine. In addition, Dr. Healy served as a staff fellow
    in the section of pathology in the National Heart and Lung Institute at
    the National Institutes of Health, 1972-1974.
        Dr. Healy graduated from Vassar College (A.B., 1965) and Harvard
    Medical School (M.D., 1970). She was born August 22, 1944, in New York,
    NY. Dr. Healy is married, has two children, and resides in Gates Mills,
    OH.