U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy JrInternal CDC documents showed on Wednesday that new members have been selected for seven new members of the Disease Control and Prevention Expert Team.
According to the document, the Department of Health and Human Services has directed the CDC to name its new member its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP), according to Reuters.
Inside Medicine is an alternative blog that was reported earlier on Wednesday on a new ACIP member.
Kennedy All 17 members fired June group and Replaced them There are eight hand-picked consultants, although they have since left the group.
Among the seven newly appointed people, there is a semi-retired transplant surgeon, Raymond Pollak, with an immunology background, who confirmed he has been asked to serve on the group.
“I was thought to have been conducted during the review process. If I got the position, I would think about it carefully,” he said.
Others include Dr. Joseph Fraiman, an emergency medicine expert in New Orleans; Dr. John Gaitanis, a pediatric neurologist; Dr. Catherine Stein, a professor of epidemiology; Hillary Blackburn, a trained pharmacist; and Evelyn Griffin, an obstetrician. No one can comment.
Pediatric cardiologist Dr. Kirk Milhoan called the Department of Health and Human Services.
A HHS spokesperson declined to comment, adding: “You will receive a letter from us when we are ready to announce it.”
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