On Friday, February 5, former United States President Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti, visited GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help begin the process of recovery and reconstruction, and to deliver relief supplies including water, food, solar flash lights, portable radios, generators, and approximately 1,900 lbs. of medical supplies.
The annual B.H. Kean-Boxer Family Foundation Lecture in Global Health took place at Medical Grand Rounds on October 20th in Uris Auditorium. The speaker was Dr. D.A. Henderson from John Hopkins University.
Leptospirosis is transmitted by rats, livestock and domestic animals in populations without access to adequate sanitation. It is considered a neglected infectious disease since it imparts its greatest burden on poor populations in developing countries.
Dr. Warren Johnson, of the Division of Infectious Diseases, was selected by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA) to receive the 2009 Society Citation Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions in infectious diseases and his commitment to the field. The award will be presented during the upcoming IDSA meeting in Philadelphia.
On February 10, Dr. Warren D. Johnson, Jr., former Chief of Infectious Diseases, and now Director of the Center for Global Health within the Department of Medicine's Infectious Diseases Division, was honored during an inauguration ceremony, in which a new clinical facility was named The Warren D. Johnson, Jr. Medical Center.
The grant will support an innovative global health research project by Dr. Rhee, titled "Metabolosomes: The Organizing Principle of Latency in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis."
As an internationally recognized leader in clinical research in HIV, Dr. Gulick led one of the first studies of 3-drug combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection which ultimately redefined the standard-of-care for HIV treatment and lead to dramatic declines in HIV-related morbidity and mortality.
Roy M. "Trip" Gulick, M.D., M.P.H. was the first author of the lead article in the October 2, 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, describing the efficacy of maraviroc in later stage patients with a substantial history of previous antiretroviral treatment.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.A.C.P., former chief resident from 1971 to 1972, has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, in recognition for his efforts to advance understanding and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
The Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases is renowned for facing some of the most virulent infectious diseases existing around the world. Division Chief, Dr. Warren D. Johnson, Jr., the B. H. Kean Professor of Tropical Medicine, works domestically here in the Department of Medicine at NewYork-Cornell, as well as abroad with co-investigators in many different fields, including HIV-AIDS, leishmaniasis, tuberculosis, malaria, and cryptosporidiosis.
