Conversations with the Director
Conversations archive
Conversations with the Director: Lauri Hicks
September 1, 2015
Lauri Hicks had a conversation about antibiotic resistance with CDC Director Tom Frieden.
Conversations with the Director: Darin Carroll
April 2, 2015
A recent conversation between NCEZID Acting Poxvirus and Rabies Branch Chief Darin S. Carroll, PhD, and CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH.
Conversations with the Director: Brandi Limbago
January 9, 2015
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, sat down with Brandi Limbago, PhD. Deputy Director of the Division of Healthcare and Quality Promotion’s (DHQP’s) Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch.
Conversations with the Director: Pierre Rollin
August 22, 2014
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, sat down with Pierre Rollin (who had just returned from three months of fighting Ebola in Guinea) for a Conversation with the Director.
Conversations with the Director: Dan Budnitz
April 17, 2014
CDC Director Tom Frieden's conversation with Dan Budnitz, MD, MPH (Capt, USPHS), director of the Medication Safety Program in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Conversations with the Director: Hajime Kamiya
May 13, 2014
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, and CDC EIS Fellow Hajime Kamiya, MD, MPH, share a conversation about public health in Japan.
Conversations with the Director: Daniel Payne
November 21, 2013
Daniel Payne walked into the conference room with CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, ready to share stories and answer tough questions during a Conversation with the Director.
Conversations with the Director: Phil Navin
September 5, 2013
I Feel Very Comfortable from an Organizational Perspective, That We’ve Put All the Right Pieces in Place
Conversations with the Director: Arjun Srinivasan, MD
August 28, 2013
Antibiotic resistance and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are topics of great interest to CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH. So much so, these infections are on CDC’s list of Winnable Battles.
Conversation with the Director: Thomas Clark, MD, MPH
July 11, 2013
When Clark, began his preventive medicine residency at Oregon Health Sciences University, he had a startling realization—that epidemiology was fun—much more fun than when he learned about it in medical school.
Conversations with the Director: Greta Massetti
May 30, 2013
Greta Massetti, PhD, chief, Research and Evaluation Branch, Division of Violence Prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control talked with CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, about violence prevention on April 29 in a Conversation with the Director.
Conversations with the Director: Althea Grant
March 13, 2013
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, continued his new Conversations with the Director series by discussing sickle cell disease with Althea Grant, PhD, MPH, chief, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Blood Disorders (DBD), NCBDDD, ONDIEH.
Conversations with the Director: Kristin M Brusuelas
February 28, 2013
Kristin M. Brusuelas, MPH, has spent more than half of her career traveling across the country and around the globe as a public health advisor for CDC.
Conversations with the Director: Sam Notzon
February 8, 2013
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, spoke with health statistician Sam Notzon, PhD, about the important role of registration and vital statistics in public health around the world.
Conversations with the Director: Stephen Cochi
January 31, 2013
What started out as a two-year stint as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the early 1980s, has turned into a long and rewarding career with the agency for Stephen Cochi, MD, MPH.
Conversations with the Director: Tom Chiller
January 10, 2013
Prevention is key in CDC’s 24/7 mission to support domestic and global partners in identifying public health problems and stopping them. And that is exactly what CDC’s fungal experts are doing in South Africa with a program to decrease and eventually stop the number of HIV patients who develop cryptococcal meningitis, a serious fungal disease of the brain and spinal column that can be fatal.
Conversations with the Director: Ann Albright
December 20, 2012
“Diabetes is a disease where ignorance isn’t bliss,” Ann Albright, PhD, RD, emphasized to CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, during their Conversations with the Director talk. What is necessary, Albright explained, is engaging people who have diabetes or are at risk for developing diabetes and actively involving them in their preventive care.
Conversations with the Director: Stephanie Sansom
November 15, 2012
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, and Stephanie Sansom, PhD, MPP, MPH, lead of the Prevention Modeling and Economics team, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP), share a strong interest and knowledge about programs and interventions to prevent HIV, and get high risk people tested and into care.
Conversations with the Director: Patrick Lammie
July 23, 2012
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, and Patrick Lammie, PhD, biologist in the Parasitic Disease Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health.
Conversations with the Director: Kate Curtis
June 6, 2012
Kate Curtis, PhD, is the latest CDC staffer to sit down and chat with CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, in his monthly initiative, Conversations with the Director.
Conversations with the Director: Michael Shaw
April 30, 2012
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH recently launched a new initiative called Conversations with the Director. The third participant was microbiologist Michael Shaw, PhD, associate director of Laboratory Science for the Influenza Division.
Conversations with the Director: Umesh Parashar
March 1, 2012
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, kicked off his new Conversations with the Director series by discussing the rotavirus program with Umesh Parashar, who leads the Enteric Viruses Epidemiology Team within CDC’s National Center for Infectious and Respiratory Diseases.
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