Outgoing CDC director takes post at Emory

ATLANTA - The outgoing director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has accepted an administrative position at Emory University. <br> <br> The school said Monday that Doctor Jeffrey Koplan will become vice president for academic health affairs at Emory&#39;s Woodruff Health Sciences Center. He will begin April 22. <br> <br> The 57-year-old Koplan resigned last month after four years as head of the CDC, the federal agency that was on the front lines of the anthrax-by-mail attacks last fall. Koplan&#39;s last day is Sunday, and no replacement has been named. <br> <br> At Emory, Koplan will help plan research and academics at the university&#39;s medical, nursing and public health schools. He will also work with Emory Healthcare, a network of Atlanta-area clinics and hospitals.

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