| Robert Windom | |
|---|---|
| United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services | |
| In office 1986–1989 | |
| Preceded by | Edward Brandt, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | James O. Mason (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Robert Emerson Windom July 14, 1930 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | October 21, 2016 (aged 86) Sarasota, Florida, U.S. |
Robert Emerson Windom (July 14, 1930 – October 21, 2016) was an American physician who served as the United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 1986-89. [1]
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Windom graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in 1952, and obtained an M.D. in 1956. [1] In 1970, he was appointed Clinical Associate professor of internal medicine at University of South Florida College of Medicine, and has been a Clinical professor of internal medicine at the same university since 1981. [1]
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.
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He was married with three children, and lived in Sarasota, Florida at the time of his death. [2] He died on October 21, 2016, aged 86. [3]
Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is at the southern end of the Tampa Bay Area, north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2013 Sarasota had a population of 53,326. In 1986 it became designated as a certified local government. Sarasota is a principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area, and is the seat of Sarasota County.
