KU NEWS SERVICE

KANSAS CITY – Kevin Ault, M.D., professor and division director in the University of Kansas Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II. This federal committee is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and formulates vaccine policy for the United States. Dr. Ault will serve a four-year term.

Previously, Dr. Ault had been the liaison member from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to the ACIP. He is the second ob-gyn physician to be appointed to this committee in the past 50 years.