Indian-American Surgeon General asked to step down by Donald Trump administration   

Murthy has been replaced by Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, who is the current Deputy Surgeon General. “(Health and Human Services) Secretary (Tom) Price thanks him for his dedicated service to the nation. Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, who is the current Deputy Surgeon General, will serve as the acting Surgeon General and assume leadership of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,” the official statement said.

Interestingly, Murthy’s removal counts second Indian-American after the removal of  US Attorney from New York Preet Bharara to be sacked from a senior position by Trump administration.

“As my colleague Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams takes over as Acting Surgeon General, know that our nation is in capable and compassionate hands. Thank you, America, for the privilege of a lifetime. I have been truly humbled and honoured to serve as your Surgeon General. I look forward to working alongside you in new ways in the years to come,” he wrote on his Facebook Post.

“While I had hoped to do more to help our nation tackle its biggest health challenges, I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to have served,” he said. “The role of the Surgeon General is traditionally to share wisdom with others, but it was I who learned so much by listening to your stories in town halls and living rooms. In a remote fishing village in Alaska, a church in Alabama, an American Indian reservation in Oklahoma, a school in Virginia, and in so many other places, I watched the grit and grace with which our fellow Americans live their lives,” he said.

Murthy was born in Huddersfield, England and brought up in Miami, Florida. He did his MD from Yale School of Medicine and an MBA in Health Care Management from the Yale School of Management

Presently, Murthy is working as a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is also Hospitalist Attending Physician and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.