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Kennedy names new chair for US autism advisory panel, sources say
Kennedy said Gaitanis will replace Sylvia Fogel as chair after remaking the advisory board and criticizing past federal support for its work.
- On Friday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed Dr. John Gaitanis to chair the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee , replacing Dr. Sylvia Fogel as the panel's leader.
- Kennedy explained the leadership transition because the committee has traditionally been chaired by one of its 21 federal members, while Fogel remains on the IACC as one of 20 outside public members.
- Gaitanis, who promotes the view that families should decide on vaccinations, recently met NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya regarding leucovorin research. Under Fogel's leadership, the IACC recommended the government adopt the term "profound autism."
- Kennedy praised the committee's current work and Fogel specifically, noting she will assist Gaitanis during the transition. "I think your recommendations have been excellent," Kennedy said, adding he would have been "only slightly" more aggressive.
- The committee provides non-binding guidance to the government on autism priorities. Fogel previously took the helm after Kennedy remade the advisory board, filling it with new members, some of whom have promoted ties between vaccines and autism.
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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named an ally, Dr. John Gaitanis, to lead a key federal advisory panel on autism on Friday, replacing a chair who had just steered through a new strategic pla...
Kennedy names new chair for US autism advisory panel
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named an ally, Dr. John Gaitanis, to lead a key federal advisory panel on autism on Friday, replacing a chair who had just steered through a new strategic plan, a health department spokesperson told Reuters.
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