{"id":44651,"date":"2016-02-25T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/michael-j-astrue-joins-national-alliance-for-hispanic-health-board\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T22:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:40:03","slug":"michael-j-astrue-se-suma-a-la-junta-directiva-de-la-alianza-nacional-para-la-salud-de-los-hispanos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/michael-j-astrue-se-suma-a-la-junta-directiva-de-la-alianza-nacional-para-la-salud-de-los-hispanos\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Astrue Joins National Alliance for Hispanic Health Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 25, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; &#8220;We are pleased to welcome <span class=\"xn-person\">Michael J. Astrue<\/span> to the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Augustine C. Baca<\/span>, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation&#8217;s leading health advocacy working for the best health outcomes for all. Mr. Baca added, &#8220;Mr. Astrue brings extensive executive experience and insight from his private sector work and government service.&#8221; Mr. Astrue commented, &#8220;I look forward to strengthening the Alliance&#8217;s capacity to meet its mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most recently Mr. Astrue served as interim CEO of InVivo Therapeutics. Previously he served as Commissioner of Social Security from 2007 to 2013.\u00a0 The Social Security Administration is an independent federal agency with over 62,000 employees nationwide.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Early in his career, Mr. Astrue worked for Senator <span class=\"xn-person\">Richard Schweiker<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Pennsylvania<\/span> and evaluated federal demonstration projects for both the National Council of Senior Citizens and a support center of the Legal Services Corporation.\u00a0 After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Walter J. Skinner in the Federal District Court of <span class=\"xn-location\">Massachusetts<\/span>. His past public service includes being General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u00a0 He successfully tried the first federal HIV discrimination enforcement case and successfully argued the first federal patient dumping enforcement case. While General Counsel of HHS, he had a concurrent appointment on the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board during the period when the Board issued many of the first regulations under the Americans with Disability Act.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>An individual with unique talents Mr. Astrue under the pseudonym <span class=\"xn-person\">A.M. Juster<\/span> wrote a book of poetry, <i>The Secret Language of Women,<\/i> which was the recipient of the 2002 Richard Wilbur Award.\u00a0 Mr. Astrue is an honors graduate of <span class=\"xn-org\">Yale University<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Harvard Law School<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>About the National Alliance for Hispanic Health\u00a0 (The Alliance)<br \/><\/b>The Alliance is the nation&#8217;s foremost science-based source of information and trusted advocate for the best health outcomes for all. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanichealth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.hispanichealth.org<\/a> or call the Alliance&#8217;s <i><span class=\"xn-person\">Su Familia<\/span><\/i> National Hispanic Family Health Helpline at 1-866-783-2645.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 25, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; &#8220;We are pleased to welcome <span class=\"xn-person\">Michael J. Astrue<\/span> to the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Augustine C. Baca<\/span>, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation&#8217;s leading health advocacy working for the best health outcomes for all. Mr. Baca added, &#8220;Mr. Astrue brings extensive executive experience and insight from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}