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1994.09.12 : Appointment of Felicia Hance Stewart

Contact: Lucy Eddinger (301) 594-4000  
Monday, Sept. 12, 1994


      CALIFORNIA GYNECOLOGIST TAPPED FOR PHS POPULATION OFFICE

     HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced the appointment
of Felicia Hance Stewart, M.D., as deputy assistant secretary for
population affairs in the Public Health Service. 

     Dr. Stewart will have responsibility for the Office of
Population Affairs and its management of the Title X Family Planning
program and the Title XX Adolescent Family Life program.  The Office
of Population Affairs funds and oversees programs which provide
family planning services, basic gynecological care and counseling
and referral on reproductive health matters to eligible clients
across the country. 

     A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Stewart comes to the
PHS from a private practice in gynecology as a member of the Sutter
Medical Group, a multi-specialty group practice in Sacramento,
Calif.  

     She is the author of Understanding Your Body, a non- technical
reference book on gynecology, and for the last 15 years she has been
a co-author of Contraceptive Technology, a major reference source in
the field of family planning.

     Secretary Shalala said, "In addition to a distinguished medical
and clinical background, Dr. Stewart has demonstrated year after
year her strong personal commitment to family planning and women's
health."

     The Office of Population Affairs is part of the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health within the Public Health Service. 
Philip R. Lee, M.D., assistant secretary for health and director of
PHS, said, "Dr. Stewart brings a fine combination of research
accomplishments and clinical experience to the Office of Population
Affairs.  I am delighted to welcome her to our PHS team."

     Because of her special interest in teen pregnancy and family
planning, Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, M.D., has oversight of
OPA.  Dr. Elders said,  "My priorities are to do something about
teen pregnancy and to make every child in America a planned and
wanted child.  I know that Dr. Stewart will be a strong ally in
working to achieve these goals."

     Dr. Stewart was a physician with the Valley Center for Women's
Health in Sacramento from 1973 until May 1992 when that corporation
was purchased by Sutter Medical Foundation.  She then practiced as
care center physician-manager with Sutter Medical Group and also
served as director of research with the Sutter Medical Foundation
until her new appointment with HHS.

     She is also a member of the technical advisory committee,
Contraceptive Research and Development Program, at the Eastern
Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va.      

     Dr. Stewart is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley, 1965, with honors in biochemistry.  She
received her medical degree from Harvard University Medical 
School in 1969 and did her internship at Cambridge City Hospital as
part of the Harvard Medical School program.  She served her
residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of
California San Francisco Medical Center.

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