Meet Don Wright, Trump's Pick to Succeed Tom Price
BY ROBERT VALENCIA ON 9/29/17 AT 5:05 PM
Don Wright will succeed Tom Price as Health and Human Services Secretary, the White House announced Friday.
Wright has served as the acting assistant secretary for health at HHS since February this year, having joined the agency in 2007.
He has moved up the ladder since those Bush administration days. In 2009, he became deputy assistant secretary for health care quality, and in 2012, he was named deputy assistant secretary and director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, where he was until Friday's announcement.
On his LinkedIn page, Wright says he spearheaded efforts to reduce adverse drug events and monitored the nation’s leading health indicators.
He also served in the Department of Labor as director of the Office of Occupational Medicine, where he was focused on safety and health.
He received a bachelor’s degree in zoology and animal biology at Texas Tech University, a medical degree from the University of Texas and a master’s degree in public health from the Medical College of Wisconsin, according to his LinkedIn profile. He finished his family residency training at Baylor College of Medicine.
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