A leading AIDS researcher who is also an expert in treating heroin addiction is the top candidate to head the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to news reports.
Dr. Robert Redfield, 66, a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, would replace Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, a Georgia physician who resigned as CDC director in January after a news report about the purchase of tobacco stock for her investment portfolio after she assumed her job.
Redfield, if appointed as CDC director, would head an agency that has a strong Atlanta presence. The majority of the 23,000 CDC employees and contractors are based in the city and its suburbs.
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