https://www.forbes.com/sites/ritarubin/2017/07/09/new-cdc-head-fitzgerald-peddled-controversial-anti-aging-medicine-before-leaving-private-practice/#5bcc33621ef8

Unlike any OB/GYN I know, Fitzgerald treated men as well as women. That’s because besides being board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, she is a fellow in “anti-aging medicine.”

It says so right in her bio on the website for the Georgia Department of Public Health, where she served as commissioner for 7 years before moving to the CDC. (The Health and Human Services press release in which HHS Secretary Tom Price, a fellow Georgia physician, announced her CDC appointment, doesn’t include that tidbit).

“I’m shocked,” Dr. David Goldstein, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the New York University School of Medicine and treasurer of the International Menopause Society, said after I told him that Fitzgerald’s biography identifies her as an anti-aging medicine fellow.

Goldstein described so-called anti-aging treatments as “snake oil” that “plays on people’s worst fears about their mortality.”

“If she (Fitzgerald) was one of these people who was marketing anti-aging medicine, that’s scary,” he said.

Turns out that she was, which is pretty surprising for someone tapped to lead a federal agency that takes pride in its “culture of scientific integrity.”