In Washington, D.C., Howard Koh, MD, was known simply as “the ASH,” an acronym for his full title, assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But for a physician who had devoted his career to battling tobacco use, to suddenly be known as the ASH — even though the title connoted respect and authority — was a bit of a struggle, a smiling Koh told attendees at a recent Stanford Health Policy Forum.
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