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Zachariah P. Zachariah immigrated to the United States from India in 1972, obtaining a U.S. medical license in 1976. Zachariah is cardiology director at Fort Lauderdale’s Holy Cross Hospital. Two other Zachariah family members--including Pioneer brother Mammen Zachariah—also are Holy Cross cardiologists. The hospital’s Zachariah Family Wellness Pavilion promotes heart-disease prevention. Zachariah Zachariah co-chaired the first President Bush’s 1992 Florida fundraising operations, raised $4 million for Bob Dole’s 1996 campaign and, with Pioneer Tom Petway, co-chairs the Florida reelection campaign of the second President Bush. After the first President Bush headlined a fundraiser in Zachariah’s home for 200 people who gave $10,000 apiece to the Republican Party, Zachariah reportedly raised more money for Bush’s 1992 campaign than any other individual. Zachariah has ridden on Air Force One; Barbara Bush has been his house guest. After reportedly considering Zachariah as a possible surgeon general, the second President Bush appointed him to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. Florida Governor Jeb Bush appointed Zachariah to the Florida Board of Medicine, as chair his Governor’s Task Force on the Obesity Epidemic and to the state university system Board of Governors. In 1999 Zacharaiah became the only physician in Florida to receive a special exemption from a state tax to fund indigent care. “I really don’t know why he’s been the only doctor in the state able to get an exemption,” the director of the state chapter of the American College of Cardiology told the St. Petersburg Times in 2002. “Probably because of his connections.” Zachariah helped found the Indian American Policy Institute, a think tank to promote Indian-American interests, and chairs the Florida Council on Economic Education, which seeks to instill school kids with free-market values. Zachariah and ex-Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger sit on the medical advisory board of the Alliance for Technology Education. The Alliance financially sponsors the World Business Review, a business program hosted by Reagan Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Businesses typically pay the Alliance $50,000 for fawning interviews with Haig that amount to little more than disguised ads.
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Nov 4, 2004
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