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Jeffrey Craig Kuhlman (born 1963) is an American medical doctor and former
Physician to the President The physician to the president is the formal and official title of the physician whom the president of the United States chooses to be their personal physician. The physician to the president and the director of the White House Medical Unit are ...
under
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...
. He attended medical school at
Loma Linda University Loma Linda University (LLU) is a private Seventh-day Adventist health sciences university in Loma Linda, California. , the university comprises eight schools and a Faculty of Graduate Studies. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist educatio ...
and completed his residency at
Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is a teaching hospital in California's Inland Empire region. Opened in 1905, it is a level 1 trauma center and is staffed by nearly 900 faculty physicians and over 1,000 beds. The main tower of the ...
. Following his retirement from the
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, Kuhlman took the position of Senior Vice President & Associate Chief Medical Officer at Florida Hospital. Kuhlman was Obama’s personal physician from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church. In an interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel in October 2024, Kuhlman expressed doubts about the health of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. He sees signs of cognitive decline. Kuhlman published a book on the healthcare of US presidents in 2024.


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* 1963 births Living people AdventHealth Physicians to the president of the United States Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni Loma Linda University alumni Southern Methodist University alumni United States Navy Medical Corps officers People from Winter Park, Florida United States Navy captains Seventh-day Adventists in health science {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub