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CDC to lose top vaccine expert to Emory University

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 1st, 2004

The U.S. government's top expert on immunizations will leave government service and join the faculty of Emory University, school officials say.

Dr. Walter Orenstein, director of the National Immunization Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will retire from the federal agency on March 1, said Holly Korschun, Emory spokeswoman.

He will join Emory University School of Medicine as director of a new Emory vaccine policy program and will become associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center. He also will be associate director of the Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats, a regional partnership led by...

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