WASHINGTON — President Reagan has selected Army Col. John E. Hutton, who has served as assistant presidential physician for two years, to succeed Dr. T. Burton Smith as the President's physician, the White House announced today.
Hutton, a vascular surgeon, is a former chief of surgery at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington. He also serves as a clinical professor at George Washington University Medical School and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is 55.
