ORANGE COUNTY: Public Health Director Joins ACS
Dr. Hugh Stallworth, public health director for Orange County, "is leaving the agency to become a vice president of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta." The Orange County Register reports that Stallworth's departure "leaves the county's health care agency with its top three positions vacant" as the former director of the agency retired last March and the former assistant director left to work for St. Joseph Health System. In Stallworth's four-year tenure with the agency, he was credited "with modernizing the agency, which oversees child and maternal health, communicable diseases, environmental health and health promotion countywide." Deputy Director Ron LePorte said, "His perception of what public health means is the clearest I've seen: that public health has to do with the health of the community. It's not so much the absence of disease, but the potential for the highest level of health that's possible." In his new role with the ACS, Stallworth "will coordinate cancer prevention among minority and low-income populations nationwide" (1/5).
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