U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Andrew Baldwin, M.D. is a physician, humanitarian, U.S. Navy diver and media personality currently serving as a family medicine resident at the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton in Southern California. Prior to his current position, Dr. Baldwin served at the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington, D.C. as a spokesman and advocate for Navy medicine. While in D.C. he assisted the U.S. Surgeon General with a program called Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future and currently serves as an advocate for the Let’s Move Campaign headed by First Lady Michelle Obama. Both of these programs target childhood overweight and obesity. Andy is partnered with ING’s Run for Something Better and Team Worldvision working to bring proper nutrition to children worldwide.
In October, Andy will spend a month on rotation at The Chebaiywa Clinic in Kenya providing prenatal and perinatal care. He will then run back to back marathons in Nairobi and New York to further awareness of the fight against both hunger and childhood obesity.
Oh yeah, he was also the star of ABC’s The Bachelor.
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