U.S. Surgeon General Visits Brichta

NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Estella Zavala or Jennea Moore, 225-6437 
Posted on: October 4, 2004

Over 250 students will learn the importance of maintaining active and healthy lives when U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona speaks at an assembly at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 8 in the cafeteria of Brichta Elementary School, 2110 W. Brichta Dr.

Dr. Carmona will speak to the schools’ first- through fifth-grade students about healthy choices, risk avoidance, and how making the right decisions can benefit a student now as well as later in life. He will then open the floor up to student questions. TUSD interim Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer will introduce Carmona.

The event is part of the Surgeon General’s “50 Schools in 50 States” tour begun in 2003. The campaign articulates Carmona’s goal to talk with diverse groups of elementary and secondary students across the country by visiting at least one school in each of the 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and other territories during his tenure. 

Dr. Carmona was sworn in as the 17th Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service on August 5, 2002. Prior to being named Surgeon General he was the chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System, a professor of surgery, public health and family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department surgeon and deputy sheriff.

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