Julie Gerberding
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Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H. (born August 22, 1955, Estelline, South Dakota), an infectious disease expert, is the current director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), having assumed the positions on July 3, 2002.
Dr. Gerberding has been leading CDC's efforts to prepare for and counter terrorism. Dr. Gerberding is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Emory University and an Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Dr. Gerberding resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, David.
Education and early career
Dr. Gerberding earned a bachelor of arts magna cum laude in chemistry and biology and her MD at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Gerberding completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UCSF, where she also served as Chief Medical Resident before completing her fellowship in clinical pharmacology and infectious diseases. In 1990, she earned an MPH degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
Prior to joining the CDC, Dr. Gerberding was a UCSF faculty member and directed the Prevention Epicenter, a multidisciplinary research, training, and clinical service program.
CDC tenure
In 1998, Dr. Gerberding joined the CDC as director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion for the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), where she developed the CDC’s patient safety initiatives and other disease prevention programs. She rose to become the acting deputy director of NCID and helped lead the CDC’s response to the anthrax bioterrorism events of 2001. She now directs the CDC and is responsible for a budget approaching $7 billion.
On July 19, 2004, Dr. Gerberding called a press conference to refute the contested notion that vaccines can cause autism in children. Protesters denounced Geberding's conclusions, citing flawed epidemiological studies.
Professional background
In the past, Dr. Gerberding served as a member of CDC’s National Center for Infectious Diseases’ Board of Scientific Counselors, the CDC HIV Advisory Committee, and the Scientific Program Committee, National Conference on Human Retroviruses. She has also been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the American Medical Association, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National AIDS Commission, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the World Health Organization.
Dr. Gerberding is currently a member the American College of Physicians, the American Epidemiology Society, and is a fellow with the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Dr. Gerberding also served three years on the board of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
Dr. Gerberding is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Medicine and serves as a peer-reviewer for numerous internal medicine, infectious diseases, and epidemiology journals.
In 2006, Dr. Gerberding gave the commencement speech at the Harvard School of Public Health. Among other things, she discussed the usefulness of wikipedia in writing commencement speeches.
External links
- [CDC.gov] - 'Biography for CDC Director Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control
- [HHS.gov] - 'Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, Named CDC director and ATSDR NAMED CDC and ATSDR administrator' (press realease), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- [ThinkTwice.com] - Letter to Dr. Gerberding, from US Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon, (October, 2003)
- [MedScape.com] - 'Interview With Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science', Madeline Drexler, WebMD (May 1 2003)
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