WASHINGTON — At least two members of a committee that advises the federal government on its vaccine injury compensation program have had their terms prematurely ended, potentially foreshadowing further changes to the federal apparatus that reviews vaccine injuries and compensates patients.
Veronica McNally, an attorney who is also director of trial advocacy at Michigan State University, and Wendy Lane, a clinician and researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, received emails on Tuesday from Commander George Reed Grimes, director of the division of injury compensation programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, telling them they’d been removed from the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccinations.
According to both, the email read, in part: “We are grateful for the valuable contributions you and your fellow members have made.” McNally was serving a three-year term on the ACCV that was slated to end next year.
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