2019 Centennial Lecture Series

President Diana Natalicio
and the
College of Engineering
cordially invite you to attend a UTEP Centennial Lecture
by
Brett P. Giroir, M.D.
Admiral, U.S. Public Health Service
Assistant Secretary for Health
Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Opioid Policy
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 126, UTEP Campus

Reception to follow presentation


Photo of Brett Giroir

Admiral Brett Giroir is the 16th United States Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. He serves as the Secretary’s principal public health and science advisor, and oversees the department’s key public health offices and programs including: disease prevention and health promotion, infectious disease and vaccine policy, minority health, human subject protection, three Presidential and eleven Secretarial advisory committees and the Office of the Surgeon General. Admiral Giroir also leads HHS efforts to fight America’s opioid crisis.

Previously, Dr. Giroir has served in numerous leadership positions in the federal government and in academic institutions. Most notably, he was the first physician to be appointed as an office director at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

He has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications, holds patents on a number of biomedical inventions, and has received numerous awards, including the American Heart Association President Lyndon Baines Johnson Award for Research, and the U.S. Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.

As a pediatric critical care physician, Dr. Giroir cared for critically ill children for 14 years. He continues to bring that hands-on, patient-centered perspective to his work as Assistant Secretary for Health.