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November 12, 2004

United States Military Medical Officials to Visit Fitzsimons and Eisenhower Suite

WHAT: National military medical officials, in Denver for the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States meeting, will visit the University of Colorado Denver's Fitzsimons campus and tour the restored historic hospital suite where Eisenhower recovered in 1955. President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver almost 50 years ago. He and First Lady Mamie spent almost two months at the Fitzsimons Army Hospital, and Americans followed his progress at Fitzsimons each day in the news.
News media is invited to attend the tour.
WHO: Dennis Brimhall, president, University of Colorado Hospital
Vice Adm. Richard H. Carmona, surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service
Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, surgeon general of the U.S. Army
Lt. Gen. George "Peach" Taylor, Jr., surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force
Ellen Embrey, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness, and director of the Deployment Health Support Directorate
WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004, 3 p.m.
WHERE: Building 500, First Floor, UCD Fitzsimons Campus, 13001 E. 17th Place, Aurora