Lisa Richardson named director of CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control

LISA RICHARDSON was named director of the CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

Richardson served for over a decade in medical and scientific leadership roles in the division and will rejoin the center Nov. 16.

She first joined CDC in 1997 as medical officer in DCPC’s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and was then selected as medical officer of the Hematologic Diseases Branch in the National Center for Infectious Diseases.

She left CDC in late 2000 to practice clinical care and serve as assistant professor at the University of Florida’s School of Medicine. Richardson then returned to CDC in 2004 as medical officer and served as lead of the Scientific Support and Clinical Translation Team in the Comprehensive Cancer Control Branch and as the division’s associate director for science. She then left DCPC in April 2013 to direct the Division of Blood Disorders in the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.

Pamela Protzel Berman, who served as acting director of DCPC, will return to her full-time duties as DCPC’s deputy director.

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