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Release: March 24, 1995
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Ruth L. Berkelman of Centers for
Disease Control Named Princeton's
1994-95 Maclean Fellow

Editors: Berkelman will hold a media availability from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, at the Maclean House Library.


PRINCETON, N.J. -- Dr. Ruth L. Berkelman, deputy director of the
National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, has been named Princeton's University's
1994-95 Maclean Fellow.

Berkelman, a member of Princeton's Class of 1973, will be on
campus April 11-13, meeting with students and faculty members and
attending classes and precepts. Her itinerary includes a public
lecture, ``Microbial Threats in a Modern World,'' which will take
place at 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 11, in Dodds Auditorium at
Robertson Hall.

Berkelman became the deputy director of the National Center for
Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) in 1992. She first joined CDC in 1980 as an
Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Hospital Infections
Program. She served as a medical epidemiologist and branch chief
in the Division of Surveillance and Epidemiologic Studies and,
later, as director of the division. In 1988, she joined the
Division of HIV/AIDS as chief of the Surveillance Branch, which is
responsible for reporting, analyzing and evaluating HIV infection
and AIDS case reports in the United States. As part of her current
responsibilities as deputy director of NCID, she led the
development of CDC's plan, ``Addressing Emerging Infectious
Disease Threats: A Prevention Strategy for the United States.''

The author or co-author of more than 60 professional publications,
Berkelman is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases
Society of America, the American College of Physicians and the
American Academy of Pediatrics. She is also member of the American
Public Health Association, the American Epidemiology Society, the
American Society for Microbiology, the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene. Among other honors, she received the Public
Health Service Meritorious Service Medal in 1993.

Berkelman received her BA from Princeton University in 1973 and
her MD from Harvard Medical School. She is certified in pediatrics
and internal medicine, and she has completed a preventive medicine
residency at CDC. She currently serves as adjunct professor in the
Department of Epidemiology in Emory University's Rollins School of
Public Health.

The Maclean Fellow program, named in honor of John Maclean Jr.,
the university's 10th president, brings to campus Princeton alumni
who have made significant contributions through their careers or
community service. Last year's fellow was Robert L. Johnson, the
founder and president of Black Entertainment Television.

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