[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.