Dr julie gerberding biography

Julie Gerberding

American physician, educator, infectious disease specialist (born )

Julie Louise Gerberding (born August 22, ) is an Americaninfectious disease expert who was the first woman to serve as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of May , she is the CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).

Gerberding grew up in Estelline, South Dakota, attended Brookings High School, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University. She was the chief medical resident at the University of California, San Francisco where she treated hospitalized AIDS patients in the first years of the epidemic.

Gerberding became a nationally-recognized figure during the anthrax attacks in the United States during her tenure as the acting deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, where she was a prominent spokeswoman for the CDC during daily briefings regarding the attacks and aftermath. Gerberding then served as CDC director from to , and was then hired as an administrator at Merck.

Education and early career

Gerberding grew up in Estelline, South Dakota[1] and attended Brookings High School[2] and Case Western Reserve University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in biology in and an M.D. in [3] She completed her internship and was the chief medical resident at the University of California San Francisco, where she also completed a fellowship in clinical pharmacology and infectious diseases.

Gerberding was an assistant professor at UCSF from to and the director of the Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center at San Francisco General Hospital from to [2] She also earned an M.P.H. degree from the University of California Berkeley in [4] and was an associate clinical professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Emory University.[5]

AIDS research

During her medical residency at San Francisco General Hospital, Gerberding treated some of the first hospitalized AIDS patients.[6] She completed several studies on the risks of HIV to healthcare workers, created guidelines to prevent their infections, and established a treatment and research unit focused on HIV/AIDS cases among the urban poor.[7][8]

US CDC

In , Gerberding was hired by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the Director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.

There, she "developed CDC's patient safety initiatives and other programs to prevent infections, antimicrobial resistance and medical errors in healthcare settings." [9]

In September , she became the acting deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID). During the anthrax attacks, Gerberding was part of a CDC team who regularly communicated with Congress, briefed the United States Health and Human Services senior staff, and communicated with the public about the crisis via daily press conferences.[8][10]

In April , after the resignation of CDC Director Jeffrey Koplan, Gerberding became the acting principal deputy director of the CDC and deputy director of the NCID.

CDC director

In July , Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson named Gerberding as the director of the CDC and administrator for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).[4]

In May , the CDC announced a significant restructuring to improve its preparedness for several types of threats, to promote health, and to better prevent disease, injury and disability.[11][12] The reorganization was controversial, and Gerberding received bipartisan criticism from individuals and occupational health & safety groups, mainly centered around the implications of the restructuring for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.[13]

Other challenges of Gerberding's tenure as CDC Director included the American response to the global outbreak of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)[6] and to several natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina.

Gerberding resigned as CDC director effective on January 20, , Barack Obama's inauguration day, to enable Obama's appointment for CDC director, Tom Frieden, to assume his position.[14][15]

Private sector

In December , Gerberding became president of Merck's vaccine division.[16][17][18] In December , the company announced her appointment as executive vice president for strategic communications, global public policy and population health.

In March it was announced that she would be retiring from Merck in May in order to assume the role as CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).[19][20][18]

In April , Gerberding told a Michigan news outlet that the United States' response to the COVID pandemic was inadequate and that herd immunity to the virus would be challenging to achieve due to widespread vaccine hesitancy.[21]

On May 30, , Gerberding delivered the commencement address to the Washington University in St.

Louis Class of , whose commencement ceremonies were postponed until May due to the pandemic.[22][23]

Memberships

Honors

References

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    Julie gerberding merck Early on I don't think I really ever recognised the dichotomy between health care and public health because in that kind of a melting pot, it is all linked together. Potentially far more problematic for Gerberding and the CDC was the return of the summertime threat of the West Nile virus, which was first detected in New York in And we have been building our BSE programme with the knowledge gained from the European experience. In April , Gerberding told a Michigan news outlet that the United States' response to the COVID pandemic was inadequate and that herd immunity to the virus would be challenging to achieve due to widespread vaccine hesitancy.

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    Emory University. Archived from the original on 30 December Retrieved 30 December

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    Julie gerberding salary In Gerberding joined the CDC as director of its healthcare quality promotion division. Does the CDC intend to continue, or even broaden, the current ban on trade in certain live animals? The American Society for Clinical Investigation. I think it is challenging and whenever people are faced with consecutive or contemporaneous challenges, there is certainly stress involved.

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    Dr julie gerberding biography CNN Health. They are the kind of things that happen at the bedside, the human connections that you make with individual patients. When I went back to see the patient later, he was happy to know that I had work outside patient care at San Francisco General Hospital, but he also expressed how incredibly grateful he was for the care he was receiving and the quality of the interaction. The Washington Post.

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    Tom frieden The New York Times. How hard has it been for the CDC to get the balance right between surveillance and prevention of everyday infectious diseases, and defending against a bioterroist attack, or the threat of an emerging infectious disease? They are the kind of things that happen at the bedside, the human connections that you make with individual patients. It is an urban hospital so the patients there have all the problems that public health is supposed to address.

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    Dr julie gerberding: Potentially far more problematic for Gerberding and the CDC was the return of the summertime threat of the West Nile virus, which was first detected in New York in They really believed that with antibiotics and vaccines we could shut the book on infectious diseases. References [ edit ]. I don't want to minimise the challenge but I think we are up to it.

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