Originally Published MDDI January 2005
NEWSTRENDS
HHS's Tommy Thompson Resigns
HHS secretary Tommy Thompson announced in early December that he will resign from his post on February 4, 2005, or when a successor is confirmed.
Likely successors include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Mark McClellan, MD, who previously led FDA, and HHS deputy secretary Claude Allen.
Thompson, a former four-term Wisconsin governor with more than three decades of public service, is the eighth Bush cabinet member to resign from the 15-member cabinet since the president won reelection.
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