Office of Health Affairs

• Jon R. Krohmer, MD, FACEP, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Deputy Chief Medical Officer
• 9 pages
• For Official Use Only
• June 19-20, 2007

The DHS Chief Medical Officer was created as part of the Department’s 2005 Second Stage Review.

The FY 2007 DHS Appropriations Bill authorized the CMO and listed 5 core responsibilities:
– Serve as Secretary’s principal medical advisor
– Coordinate DHS biodefense activities
– Ensure internal/external coordination of DHS’ medical preparedness activities
– Serve as primary DHS point of contact for Federal/state/local/tribal governments and the private sector on medical and public health issues
– Discharge DHS responsibilities under Project BioShield (in coordination w/ S&T)
Secretary Chertoff created the Office of Health Affairsas part of the Departmental reorganization announced on January 18, 2007

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Presidential Mandates for DHS Health Affairs

HSPD 5

DHS is the overall incident coordinator in a catastrophic incident

Link together HHS, USDA, DoD, VHA, ST&L, Private sector
HSPD 7

Mitigate vulnerabilities in the safety and security of the medical, public health and emergency service critical infrastructures and key resources
HSPD 8

Achieve an all-hazards National Preparedness Goal with Target Capabilities on which to base planning at federal, state, and local levels.

HSPD 9

Mitigate vulnerabilities in food, agriculture and water systems
Develop a robust biological threat awareness capacity

HSPD 10

Ensure a coordinated architecture for bio-monitoring, biosurveillance, aerosol detection, clinical syndrome detection, suspicious substance handling and mail room monitoring

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Office of Health Affairs

Assistant Secretary (Acting) and Chief Medical Officer
– Jeffrey W. Runge, MD (FACEP)

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Chief Medical Officer
– Jon R. Krohmer, MD (FACEP)
jon.krohmer@dhs.gov

Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Readiness
– B. Tillman Jolly, MD (FACEP)

Senior Medical Advisor Incident Coordination Division
– Michael Zanker, MD (FACEP)
michael.zanker@dhs.gov

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