New CDC Director, Assistant
Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness Named
July 12, 2002 - Secretary of Health and Human Services
(HHS) Tommy Thompson announced the appointments of a new director
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on
July 3 and a new assistant secretary at the Department on
June 28.
Julie L. Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., was named director of
the CDC and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR), replacing Jeffrey Koplan, M.D.,
who left the agency March 31. Dr. Gerberding has been serving
as part of the leadership team that has been leading CDC since
Dr. Koplan's departure. Dr. Gerberding has been at the CDC
since 1998 as director of the Division of Healthcare Quality
Promotion. Dr. Gerberding received her undergraduate and medical
degrees from Case Western Reserve University and completed
her internship and residency in internal medicine at the University
of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She holds positions as
a tenured professor of medicine and epidemiology and biostatistics
at UCSF, and as an associate professor of medicine at Emory
University.
Secretary Thompson named Jerome M. Hauer, M.P.H., as acting
Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness.
This is a new position created by the bioterrorism legislation
signed into law by President Bush on June 12 [see
Washington Highlights, June 14]. Mr. Hauer has
been serving as director of the HHS Office of Public Health
Preparedness since taking over for D.A. Henderson, M.D., on
May 3. Prior to his service at HHS, Mr. Hauer was director
of the Office of Emergency Management in New York City.
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