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Dr. Paul Ambrose, 32, died Sept. 11, 2001, a victim of the coordinated terrorists attacks against the United States in New York, Washington, DC, and elsewhere.

Paul worked with the secretary of Health and Human Services and the surgeon general, addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health. He had become engaged to Bianca Angelino a week ago. They planned to marry next fall in Spain, a country where he spent a year studying. Paul was a doctor who graduated from Marshall University School of Medicine in his hometown of Huntington, W.Va. Ambrose had completed a masters degree in public health at Harvard University 2 years ago. He was more than halfway through a fellow with the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and was working directly with the Surgeon General on a number of health issues. "This guy was spectacular," says longtime friend Erin Fuller. "He could've been surgeon general of this country."

Last year, the 1995 graduate of Marshall University School of Medicine was named the Luther Terry Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Preventative Medicine.