New CDC Director questioned about financial conflicts
Dr.
"I've done everything that they've requested, in a timely manner as they've requested," Fitzgerald said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. "My financial people tell me we have now sold all the stocks."
But last week, Sen.
The agreement notes Fitzgerald is unable to divest from certain investments that could prevent her from talking about cancer and prescription drug monitoring programs, wrote Murray, a Democrat from
"I am concerned that you cannot perform the role of
She called on Fitzgerald to release more information and to meet with the committee about the issue.
Public health leaders have noted Fitzgerald has kept an unusually low profile since becoming
Fitzgerald said her stock purchases had been handled by two financial management companies and that she hadn't been aware of particular holdings until they were raised to her by ethics compliance officials at HHS. She said her stock sales have been completed since the October hearing.
HHS and
Fitzgerald, 71, was a long-time obstetrician-gynecologist in the
People who've met with her say that in small groups or personal meetings she can be gregarious, and she was a prominent spokesperson on health issues in the past.
But since Fitzgerald took office, she has skipped important public health meetings and bowed out of at least one Congressional hearing. For months, she declined nearly all media interviews, and was absent from the kind of flu vaccination promotions that traditionally star
Fitzgerald said she was traveling or had other scheduling conflicts during many of those events.
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