On November 21, 2014, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Thomas R. Frieden announced that Patrick Breysse has been selected as the Director of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/ATSDR. Dr. Breysse has been a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and will join NCEH/ATSDR on December 28, 2014. He also has held joint appointments as Professor of Medicine within the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and as a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering within the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering. He has served as Associate Chair for Educational Programs within the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Program Director for Industrial Hygiene Training Program and Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment. The message about this appointment noted that Dr. Breysse has served on a number of advisory panels and committees within the fields of environmental health, occupational safety, and toxicology. His research has focused on a broad range of occupational and environmental health topics, particularly the relationship between indoor and outdoor air quality and health.