UNDATED (WSAU-Wheeler News) Donna Shalala, a former U-W Madison chancellor and Clinton health secretary, is hospitalized with a stroke. The 74-year-old Shalala was stricken last night after a meeting in New York of the Clinton Global Initiative. It’s a spinoff group from the Clinton Foundation, of which Shalala is now the president and C-E-O.
In a statement Clinton and his daughter Chelsea say it was fortunate that Shalala was with colleagues when she suffered her stroke — and early medical reports are “very encouraging.”
Shalala joined the Clinton Foundation earlier this year, after she retired as president of the University of Miami. She was the chancellor at Madison from 1988-to-’93, when Clinton named her as the nation’s health and human services secretary. She served in that post for all eight years of the Clinton presidency.
