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06-21-03, 09:41 AM
VA Doctor Honored by Good Housekeeping Magazine
WASHINGTON (June 18, 2003) - Dr. Susan H. Mather, chief public
health and environmental hazards officer at the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA), has received the Good Housekeeping-Wyeth Award for Women's
Health.
"In a career lasting nearly a quarter of a century with VA, Dr.
Mather has vigorously championed women's health issues," said Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi. "Under her leadership, VA has
increased the services it offers to women and has made sure those services
were offered in a women-friendly environment."
Each year, Good Housekeeping magazine and the Center for American
Women and Politics honors women in government whose work exemplifies how
government improves people's lives. The Good Housekeeping-Wyeth Award for
Women's Health provides an award of $25,000 for a woman in government whose
program or achievement advances the status of women's health. All the award
winners are featured in the July 2003 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.
Throughout her career, Mather has maintained a strong interest in
women veterans' health issues, as well as the more traditional public health
issues. She became head of the Women Veterans Health Program in 1994.
She established eight Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Centers to
develop new and enhanced programs focusing on the unique health care needs
of women veterans. The program later expanded to include sexual trauma
programs at all VA facilities, develop guidelines for women's health
programs and hire full-time women veteran coordinators at VA medical
centers.
As chief public health and environmental hazards officer, she is
also responsible for VA programs dealing with ionizing radiation, Agent
Orange, Gulf War illnesses, AIDS, Hepatitis C and smoking cessation.
In 1993, Mather received an award from the Vietnam Veterans of
America for Outstanding Contributions to Women Veterans. Additionally,
Mather frequently serves as a mentor of professional women in federal
service.
Mather received her medical degree from the University of Maryland
School of Medicine. She earned her masters of public health in epidemiology
from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Mather
completed her training in internal medicine and pulmonary diseases at the
University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, then spent one year as a
senior health officer and Locum Registrar at the London Chest Hospital in
England.
After teaching ambulatory medicine at the University of Maryland
School of Medicine and serving as director of epidemiology and adult health
services at the Prince George's County Health Department in Maryland, she
joined VA in 1979 as program chief for pulmonary and infectious diseases.
WASHINGTON (June 18, 2003) - Dr. Susan H. Mather, chief public
health and environmental hazards officer at the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA), has received the Good Housekeeping-Wyeth Award for Women's
Health.
"In a career lasting nearly a quarter of a century with VA, Dr.
Mather has vigorously championed women's health issues," said Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi. "Under her leadership, VA has
increased the services it offers to women and has made sure those services
were offered in a women-friendly environment."
Each year, Good Housekeeping magazine and the Center for American
Women and Politics honors women in government whose work exemplifies how
government improves people's lives. The Good Housekeeping-Wyeth Award for
Women's Health provides an award of $25,000 for a woman in government whose
program or achievement advances the status of women's health. All the award
winners are featured in the July 2003 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.
Throughout her career, Mather has maintained a strong interest in
women veterans' health issues, as well as the more traditional public health
issues. She became head of the Women Veterans Health Program in 1994.
She established eight Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Centers to
develop new and enhanced programs focusing on the unique health care needs
of women veterans. The program later expanded to include sexual trauma
programs at all VA facilities, develop guidelines for women's health
programs and hire full-time women veteran coordinators at VA medical
centers.
As chief public health and environmental hazards officer, she is
also responsible for VA programs dealing with ionizing radiation, Agent
Orange, Gulf War illnesses, AIDS, Hepatitis C and smoking cessation.
In 1993, Mather received an award from the Vietnam Veterans of
America for Outstanding Contributions to Women Veterans. Additionally,
Mather frequently serves as a mentor of professional women in federal
service.
Mather received her medical degree from the University of Maryland
School of Medicine. She earned her masters of public health in epidemiology
from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Mather
completed her training in internal medicine and pulmonary diseases at the
University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, then spent one year as a
senior health officer and Locum Registrar at the London Chest Hospital in
England.
After teaching ambulatory medicine at the University of Maryland
School of Medicine and serving as director of epidemiology and adult health
services at the Prince George's County Health Department in Maryland, she
joined VA in 1979 as program chief for pulmonary and infectious diseases.