Donald Weaver

Donald L. Weaver, M.D., is Assistant Surgeon General for United States Public Health Service, Deputy Associate Administrator for Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration.  Dr. Weaver was appointed deputy associate administrator for Primary Health Care in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) on February 22, 2005.  HRSA works to fill in the health care gaps for people who live outside the economic and medical mainstream.  The agency uses its $7 billion annual budget (FY 2008) to expand access to quality health care for all Americans through an array of grants to state and local governments, health care providers and health professions training programs.  One of HRSA’s major responsibilities is its funding and oversight of the Consolidated Health Center Program, a vital component of the Nation’s health care safety net.  As deputy associate administrator for Primary Health Care, Dr. Weaver helps manages the $2 billion program, which supports more than 7,000 primary health care delivery sites that provide family-oriented primary and preventive care to more than 17 million poor and medically underserved Americans.  Dr. Weaver began his career in the U.S. Public Health Service in 1975 as a National Health Service Corps (NHSC) volunteer physician.  After his service in Tooele, Utah, Dr. Weaver served in HRSA’s Regional and Central offices in positions of increasing responsibility and subsequently served as the NHSC Director for 15 years.  He has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, and the Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal in recognition of his achievements.  Dr. Weaver is a 1973 graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed a two-year pediatric residency at Boston's Children's Hospital Medical Center.  He is a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and a Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.