Can medical professionals work with the Trump administration and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services without risking their careers, even as articles of faith in public health fail under the evidence?It’s an open question after pediatric cardiologist Kirk Milhoan allegedly lost his practice “solely because” he now chairs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which has reoriented its recommendations around individual decisionmaking since Kennedy remade the panel.
The committee voted last week to stop recommending the hepatitis B shot at birth and instead wait two months to inoculate babies born to mothers who test negative for the virus.
President Trump cheered the move and directed HHS to speed up its review of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, comparing it with peer, developed countries and the scientific evidence that informs the practices.
ACIP Vice Chairman Robert Malone identified Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Texas as having removed Milhoan, saying he “directly confirmed” with Milhoan, whose wife, Kimberly, made the claim in an essay Thursday while both were at a Hong Kong medical conference.
Just the News heard the same employer from an HHS source in contact with the Independent Medical Alliance, which reached its member Milhoan at the conference. Global Health Project President Kat Lindley, a “friend and colleague,” confirmed it as well.
DeTar Healthcare System identifies Milhoan’s location as Driscoll Physicians Group, which is part of the hospital. Just the News called the listed number to ask whether Milhoan was still on staff, and was forwarded to the voicemail for someone in the pediatric intensive care unit.
“Pretty clear message : if you work with the Trump / RFK administration, they will attempt to destroy you professionally,” Philadelphia cardiologist Anish Koka wrote on X after Kimberly Milhoan said husband Kirk was suddenly removed following an “overwhelming number of calls” to his practice that demanded his firing based on less than two weeks as ACIP chair.
“The Pharma cartel has a long reach” is how Human Genome Project participant Kevin McKernan, whose research concluded Pfizer and Moderna vaccines had DNA contamination exceeding U.S. and Europe regulatory limits, explained Milhoan’s alleged purge.
“An evidence-based 2 month delay in the hep B vaccine is grounds for firing!?” exclaimed autism researcher Toby Rogers, who sought retraction of a CDC-authored paper that allegedly hid contrary evidence to rule out a vaccine-autism link and testified in Congress this fall.
