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Early life, education, and personal life
Shulkin was born at the Fort Sheridan U.S. Army base in Highland Park, Illinois to Mark Weiss Shulkin and Sonya Lee (née Edelman), where his father, served as an Army psychiatrist. Both of his grandfathers fought in World War I. He received a BA from Hampshire College in 1982, and an MD degree from Medical College of Pennsylvania (which has since merged into Drexel University) in 1986; he then did his medical internship at Yale School of Medicine, and his residency and fellowship in General Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Presbyterian Medical Center. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
“I did a search on Shulkin and found that unlike Admiral Ronny Jackson, he never served in the military, so why he was chosen as Veterans Administration director is beyond me.”
He’s a Secular Progressive Capo and he loved Obola. The only remaining question is why did Trump keep him on in the first place. Shulkin is just another bull$hitting Liberal.
>>> so why he was chosen as Veterans Administration director is beyond me.
You couldn’t scroll down further on the wikipedia page to which you linked to see his experience as a hospital system administrator.
“Shulkin served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He also served as president of Morristown Medical Center and as vice president of Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization.
He has been Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University Hospital, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital.