Nicole Lurie

… wise they were reluctant to play it up. Finally, I e-mailed Jenny, Laura Petrou, and Niki Lurie telling how crazy this was. Jenny finally relented and let me call back the print people to tell them only that “our data corroborate the companies’ data”, without giving det …

… ropriations briefing/Hearing chaired by David Obey. Witness – me, Tom Frieden (CDC), Niki Lurie (ASPR) and health commissioner from Alabama and ?. Tough questions by members and staff regarding availability of vaccines. I came out looking good, but it was a intense hear …

Holiday Season in full swing with parties, etc. Today parties at Nicki Lurie and Jesse Goodman’s; Bill Haseltine’s and Hugh and Mimi Auchincloss’s. Flu activity really slowing down with sharp drop in cases. More vaccine now available and so push to va …

… at the National Press Club with me, Secretary Sebelius, Tom Frieden, Peggy Hamburg, Nicki Lurie, Jess Goodman, etc. to explain what we have done in response to H1N1.

… urally emerging and deliberately emerging. Present at the meeting was Zeke Emanuel, Nicki Lurie, Peggy Hamburg, Tom Frieden by phone from Atlanta, Jesse Goodman, Brian Kamoe, George Korch, Richard Hatchett, James Lawlor (latter 2 are my employees detailed to Heidi), Mik …

… hn Holdren from PCAST. There is tension building where the HHS people (particularly Nicki Lurie and to some extent Jesse Goodman, Peggy Hamburg and Tom Frieden are getting nervous about the boldness of the proposal and whether we can “deliver” on the promises. Heidi is …

… heavy in that the HHS folks are getting cold feet. Although good friends of mine – Nicki Lurie appears afraid and over her head. Jesse Goodman is forever in the weeds. Peggy Hamburg is cautious but just now is starting to realize that this train is moving.

… t the HHS crew is afraid. Issue is that they think that the concept is too bold and Nicki Lurie is afraid that it will supersede the IOM-led review of the enterprise that Sec. Sebelius has ordered for Feb. 22-23 and that must report to her by March 31. Heidi wants to le …

… tary Sebelius over the phone. She is smart, but clueless about what all this means. Nicki Lurie is inarticulate in explaining it to her. Nonetheless Heidi is going to give it a go with the POTUS even though she is terribly frustrated with the HHS people except for me. M …

… (and actually incompetent) response of the HHS people. Had the PHEMCE review led by Nicki Lurie under the auspices of the IOM. Held at the House of Sweden on 2900 K street by the Georgetown Waterfront. I presented a lively endorsement of the Avery plan. L felt that it m …

… d at the inertia and lack of imagination of HHS people, particularly Peggy Hamburg, Nicki Lurie and Jess Goodman. Asked for my help in getting the initiative going or she even said that it might be hopeless with this cast of characters. She felt that Nicki was in over h …

… ues to be reserved and cautious in typical FDA fashion, but cannot articulate well. Nicki Lurie is a good person, but over her head. In fairness to her, she is caught between a rock and a hard place in trying not to let this get ahead of the Secretary who in my mind is …

… t we think is best for vaccine development. Later in the day, the HHS Flu team (me, Nicki Lurie, Jesse Goodman, Peggy Hamburg, Tom Frieden, Laura Petrou, Jenny Backus, etc) meets with Sebelius in her private conference room. We present the supposedly penultimate draft o …

… o have endless meetings with ASPR on the Medical Countermeasure (MCM) review led by Nicki Lurie with Laura Petrou and Jenny Backus involved. I now attend by conference call since it is a waste of time to go down town for these drawn out discussions. Theme is post-mortem …

… ery. Continued frustration on Heidi’s part about the lack of cooperation on part of Nicki Lurie and HHS. Heidi wants transformation and HHS is conservative, only concerned about the Secretary, and “stuck in the mud”. What a sorry crew. These meeting are started to take …

… Avery. We finally came to some compromise in the tension between the WH (Avery) and HHS (Lurie- Sebelius).

… ach towards antimicrobial resistance research. The FDA presentation was made by Dr. Peter Lurie. In attendance were Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Peggy Hamburg, members of the FDA, as well as members of the NIH. This is an initiative in which we will be engaging industry in …

… V Ebola vaccine. On the call were our HHS team with me, Cliff Lane, Hilary Marston, Nicki Lurie, Dawn O’Connell (Sec. Burwell’s Chief-of-Staff), Tom Frieden and CDC folks, Robin Robinson, Leslie Dasch (Counsellor to Burwell). On the Canadian side there was Gregory Taylo …

… ministration less enthusiastic about getting heavily involved with the Ebola issue. Nicki Lurie, who is a good person and a friend, is making things more confusing by trying to suggest how to do clinical trials, train people and other tasks when she knows little about t …

… ith Tom Frieden trying to iron out the RCT issue. Also, Tom is very frustrated with Nicki Lurie, saying that having her around and involved in conversations is always counter-productive. Also, he is frustrated with Sec. Burwell, feeling that she seems only to want to “c …

… e with a Stepped-Wedge Trial. I arranged a conference call at 5:30 PM with me, Tom, Nicki Lurie, Peggy Hamburg, Lu Borio, and Anne Schuchat. We came to agreement that we will do the two trials (RCT + Stepped Wedge) simultaneously. CDC (Anne and Tom) feel that the RCT ma …

… e call today on the HHS teleconference with Sylvia, Tom Frieden, Peggy Hamburg, me, Nicki Lurie, etc. Tom was concerned that with the POTUS announcement at 3:00 PM that they would not be able to implement the 4 items (see above) at the chosen airports of Kennedy, O’Hare …

… Rayburn Building. Topic was Ebola response. I represented NIH. Also testifying was Nicki Lurie (ASPR), Tom Frieden and Robin Robinson (BARDA). I did well, but Nicki and Tom caught some criticism for the fact that the ETUs that they recommended got built and only 2 of 1 …

… open letter to President Trump was drafted by former FDA Associate Commissioner Dr. Peter Lurie, now President of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and epidemiologist and longtime AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves, now of Yale School of Public Health, who began …