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Richard E. Besser is an American physician and health executive who served as the Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from January to June 2009. He is currently the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's President and CEO.
Besser was born on August 28, 1959 in the United States. He is 61 years old as of 2021. He holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity.
Besser attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1981. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree in 1985. He completed his residency in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1988.
Besser has been married to his wife, Dr. Lisa Besser, since 1988. The couple has two children together.
Besser's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million as of 2021. He has earned his wealth from his career as a physician and health executive.
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Who Is Richard E. Besser's Wife?
His wife is Jeanne Besser
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Richard E. Besser Net Worth
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Besser wrote at the time, "You cannot catch Ebola in a lecture hall hearing about the power of communication during a public health crisis. I expect universities to fight this kind of fear, not feed it. What we need to do is communicate, as strongly and as often as we can, what the real risks are and aren’t."
In Besser’s role at ABC News, he provided medical analysis and reports for all ABC News programs and platforms. His weekly health chats on social media reached millions.
In April 2017, Besser replaced Risa Lavizzo-Mourey and was named the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J.
In April 2015, Besser delivered the Provost's Lecture at Oregon State University.
In October 2014, Case Western Reserve University disinvited Besser from a speaking engagement because he'd recently returned from a trip to Liberia. His scheduled talk was to be “Pandemics, Public Health, and Political Change: The Critical Importance of Communication," a discussion of the 2009 flu pandemic "when fear was outracing the disease".
Besser also worked as a health reporter for a local television station in San Diego, California during the 1990s. On January 22, 2009, Besser was named acting director of the CDC and ATSDR. Before the new Obama administration named a permanent director for both agencies, in April 2009, an outbreak of swine flu in North America swept the headlines.
In 1991, Besser joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service which is under the supervision of the CDC. He was sent to Boston to investigate a minor outbreak of E. coli there. Officials were unhappy at the length and cost of the investigation, which included collecting deer feces from apple orchards, but Besser eventually found the source of the outbreak, which was apple cider.
Besser received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Williams College and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1986. After graduation, Besser completed a residency and a chief residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
Besser grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and graduated from Princeton High School in 1977.
Richard E. Besser (born August 29, 1959) is an American doctor and executive who serves as President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (effective April 2017 – present). Besser was the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). He was ABC News' former chief health and medical editor.
