{"id":1495,"date":"2013-04-23T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2013-04-23T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:15:44","slug":"sondik-to-steps-down-as-nchs-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/04\/23\/1495\/","title":{"rendered":"Sondik to Step Down as NCHS Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>HYATTSVILLE, MD<\/b> &#8211; The Director of CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Dr. Edward J. Sondik, has announced that he will be leaving NCHS at the end of April.\u00a0 Charles J. Rothwell, currently the Center\u2019s Director of Vital Statistics, began as Acting Director of NCHS on April 1, 2013, as CDC searches for a permanent director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/about\/leadership\/leaders\/images\/sondik.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" alt=\"Edward J. Sondik, PhD\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/about\/leadership\/leaders\/images\/sondik.gif\" width=\"181\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sondik started his career by studying electrical engineering for control systems, computers, and operations research while earning a doctorate degree at Stanford University.\u00a0 In the 1970\u2019s, he joined the National Institutes of Health to work on clinical trial policy for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.\u00a0 In 1982, he joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI).\u00a0 Here, he held a number of positions, including serving as deputy director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, where among other duties, he oversaw the pioneering Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results cancer registry.\u00a0 He also served as acting director of NCI for a period of time prior to coming to CDC.<\/p>\n<p>Rothwell takes over after earning the distinction as a Top Leader in Federal Service as director of the Division of Vital Statistics at NCHS.\u00a0 Prior to working with CDC, he served more than a decade as the first director of North Carolina\u2019s Center for Health Statistics.\u00a0 In addition, Rothwell helped develop the National Science Foundation\u2019s digital government initiative and served on a peer review team for the Library of Congress\u2019 National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYATTSVILLE, MD &#8211; The Director of CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Dr. Edward J. Sondik, has announced that he will be leaving NCHS at the end of April.\u00a0 Charles J. Rothwell, currently the Center\u2019s Director of Vital Statistics, began as Acting Director of NCHS on April 1, 2013, as CDC searches for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}