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* Member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents since 2011. | * Member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents since 2011. | ||
* Co-director of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2011 | * Co-director of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2011 | ||
| + | ==Director of the CDC== | ||
| + | Walensky was appointed as Director of the CDC by President-elect Joe Biden and assumed office on 20 January 2020. | ||
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Walensky is a very active writer. She is listed as a co-author of [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Walensky+RP 310 articles] by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine. | Walensky is a very active writer. She is listed as a co-author of [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Walensky+RP 310 articles] by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine. | ||
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Rochelle Paula Walensky, B.A., M.D., M.P.H., (b. 4 April 1969) is the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Early life
Rochelle Paula Bersoff was born in Peabody, Massachusetts to Edward Bersoff and Carol Bersoff-Berstein. She was reared in Potomac, Maryland where she graduated Winston Churchill High School.
Education
- Walensky earned her B.A. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1991.
- Walensky was awarded her M.D. at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore in 1995.
- Walensky obtained her M.P.H. at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston in 2001.
Adult life
- Walensky served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School since 2001.
- Chief of the division of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2017 to 2020.
- Worked to improve HIV screening and care in South Africa.
- Chair of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health from 2014 to 2015.
- Member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents since 2011.
- Co-director of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2011
Director of the CDC
Walensky was appointed as Director of the CDC by President-elect Joe Biden and assumed office on 20 January 2020.
Publications
Walensky is a very active writer. She is listed as a co-author of 310 articles by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine.
References