Charles Everett Koop, MD

Doctor of Medicine

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 (born October 14, 1916) is an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator. He was a vice admiral

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In the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, and the United States Maritime Service, vice admiral is a three-star flag officer, with the pay grade of...

 in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and served as thirteenth Surgeon General of the United States

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 under President Ronald Reagan

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 from 1982 to 1989.
Koop was born in Brooklyn

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, New York, of immigrant German

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 ancestry. He obtained his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College

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 in 1937 and his M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...

 degree from Cornell

Cornell University

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 Medical College in 1941.