AAP News Vol. 14 No. 5 May 1998, p. 5
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Pediatricians take policy detour

Gem Benoza

It was the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 that started Lynn Cates, M.D., FAAP, on the road that eventually would lead her to Washington, D.C. Today she is a Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Health Policy Fellow.

"That one piece of legislation showed me how dramatically you could affect the lives of children in one fell swoop," said Dr. Cates, who is a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and on the staff of Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.