David Jonathon Shulkin (born July 22, 1959) is the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was nominated by President Donald Trump and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on February 13, 2017. Prior to becoming the VA Secretary, Shulkin served as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs from 2015 until 2017 in the Obama administration.Shulkin was born at the Fort Sheridan U.S. Army base in Highland Park, Illinois, where his father served as an Army psychiatrist. 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 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. He is married to Merle Bari, a dermatologist. His daughter, Jennie, won a gold medal in squash at the 2009 Maccabiah Games. Shulkin is Jewish. Wikipedia
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