AIDS Researcher Robert Redfield Named CDC Director
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar yesterday Robert Redfield, M.D., as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Redfield is an AIDS researcher who oversees a program providing HIV care and treatment to Baltimore-area patients, and is professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Redfield replaces Anne Schuchat, M.D., who has served as acting CDC director since Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., resigned as CDC director in January.
Related News Articles
Blog
Recent data from Press Ganey, reflecting input from over 1.4 million health care employees, reveals that after an initial post-pandemic rebound, employee…
Headline
The AHA and other national health care groups sent a letter to members of the House and Senate appropriations committees, urging them to provide $778 million…
Headline
An article in the May edition of AHA’s Trustee Insights highlights what physicians seek in their relationships with hospitals, and how those relationships are…
Perspective
In December 2024, Army 2nd Lt. Regina Benson celebrated her 105th birthday. At the time of her passing the following month, she was America’s oldest military…
Headline
A replay of the Hospital Capacity Management Consortium’s Spring Symposium is now available. The event, for health care capacity management professionals,…
Headline
The AHA May 12 responded to the Office of Management and Budget's April 11 request for information on regulatory relief, making 100 suggestions to the Trump…