Fulton County has hired two new administrators to help lead its Department of Health Services.
Dr. David Sarnow, formerly chief of aerospace medicine in the U.S. Air Force, will become deputy health director. Sarnow has more than 20 years’ experience in civilian and military public health.
Dr. David Holland, an Emory University professor, is the new chief clinical officer for the Health Department’s Communicable Disease Prevention Branch. He served as the county’s tuberculosis clinic physician from 2001 to 2006.
The appointments come as the Health Department has come under fire for squandering millions of dollars in federal HIV grant money. Dr. Patrice Harris, the department's director, recently announced she will retire at the end of the year.
The new hires also are part of County Manager Dick Anderson's continuing effort to reshape the county bureaucracy in part through administrative appointments.
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