Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), yesterday received the 2007 George M. Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) for his outstanding contributions to academic medicine.
The Kober Medal is among the highest honors conferred upon physician-scientists in the United States. Dr. Fauci, a longtime AAP member and former AAP president, received the medal at the joint meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the AAP in Chicago.
“Tony Fauci is the consummate physician-scientist leader,” says HHS/NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. “His contributions to medicine, public health and science are profound.”
Dr. Fauci’s tenure as Director of HHS/NIH/NIAID began in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious and immunologic diseases.
