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Julie Gerberding

American physician, educator, infectious disease specialist (born 1955)

Julie Louise Gerberding (born August 22, 1955) is an American infectious 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 2022, she is the CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).²

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Born Aug 22, 1955.¹

About

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 2001 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 2002 to 2009, and was then hired as an administrator at Merck.

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Companies

United States Centers for Disease Control and PreventionBoard member 2002 to 2009¹³

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of California, Berkeley³
Date not recordedUniversity of California, San Francisco³

Gerberding grew up in Estelline, South Dakota and attended Brookings High School and Case Western Reserve University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in biology in 1977 and an M.D. in 1981. 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 1988 to 1995 and the director of the Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center at San Francisco General Hospital from 1990 to 1998. She also earned an M.P.H. degree from the University of California Berkeley in 1990 and was an associate clinical professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Emory University.

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Career

Occupation: politician, physician.⁷

2002 to 2009Director, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention^{4 5}
2002 to 2009Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention^{5 6}
Date not recordedWorked at University of California, San Francisco⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Emory University⁴

Personal life

BornAug 22, 1955, Estelline⁸
CitizenshipUnited States⁹

Awards

2009Women Leaders in Medicine^{10 11}

Sources

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WikidataJulie Gerberding on Wikidata
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WikipediaJulie Gerberding on Wikipedia
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WikidataJulie Gerberding: education, on Wikidata
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WikidataJulie Gerberding: Worked at University of California, San Francisco, on Wikidata
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WikidataDirector, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as reported by NNDB
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WikidataJulie Gerberding: Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Wikidata
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WikidataJulie Gerberding: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataJulie Gerberding: place of birth, on Wikidata
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WikidataJulie Gerberding: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataJulie Gerberding: award, on Wikidata
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Wikidataaward, as reported
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WikidataJulie Gerberding: LinkedIn, on Wikidata
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WikidataUnited States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Board member
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Wikimedia CommonsJulie Gerberding photo by unknown, Public domain