Kenneth P. Moritsugu



Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu USPHS, retired in September 2007 as acting United States Surgeon General. A third-generation Japanese-American, he was appointed the Deputy Surgeon General on October 1, 1998 and named acting Surgeon General on July 31, 2006.

RADM Moritsugu received his bachelor's degree in 1967 from the University of Hawaii, his M.D. from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 1971, and a Master's Degree in Public Health (Health Administration and Planning ) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.