The Annual Thomas C. Merigan Jr. Lecture
2016
The Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine host, Peter Piot, MD, in 2016.
2015
The Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine host, Julie Overbaugh, PhD, in 2015.
2014
The Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine host, Bruce Walker, MD, in 2014.
2013
The Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine host, Thomas C. Quinn, MD, in 2013.
2012
The Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine host, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, in 2012.
Each year the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine hosts the Thomas C. Merigan, Jr. Lecture. This endowed lectureship is in honor of Dr. Merigan, Professor Emeritus, and the former Chief of the division of Infectious Diseases at Stanford. Dr. Merigan is an internationally known virologist whose laboratory contributed the tests to measure HIV viral load, among many other notable achievements, and he trained many leaders in the field of infectious diseases. Each year, the lectureships brings a renowned scientist to speak about their work in infectious diseases at Medicine Grand Rounds. The first lecture, in 1994, was given by Dr. Jonas Salk.
1994 — Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine.
1997 — Dr. Baruch Blumberg was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH.
1998 — Dr. Robert Gallo is best known for his role in the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test.
1999 — Dr. Maurice Hilleman is known as one of the world's leading vaccinologists, having developed eight of the 14 vaccines routinely given for once-common childhood diseases.
2000 — Dr. Michael Oldstone has made significant advancements that have led to the understanding of viral persistence and immunity in the nervous system.
2002 — Harriet Robinson has a multi-protein clade B DNA/MVA vaccine in phase 2a clinical trials through the US HIV vaccine Trials Network (HVTN).
2006 — Dr. John Wennberg is a researcher of healthcare variations.
2007 — Dr. Lawrence Corey pioneered the development of antiviral therapy for human chronic viral infections.
2008 — Dr. Douglas Richman has made major clinical and laboratory contributions to the field of HIV/AIDS, which represent a model of translational medical research.
2009 — Dr. Mark Wainberg was the first to identify 3TC as an anti-viral drug effective against HIV in 1989, and has made multiple contributions to the field of HIV drug resistance.
2012 — Dr. Anthony "Tony" Fauci is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
2013 — Dr. Thomas Quinn investigations have involved the study of the epidemiologic, virologic, immunologic features of HIV infection in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Asia.
2014 — Dr. Bruce Walker leads an international research effort to understand how some rare people who are infected with HIV but have never been treated can fight the virus with their immune system.
2015 — Dr. Julie Overbaugh worked closely with investigators in Kenya for the past 2 decades, including on a number of studies of mother-to-child and heterosexual transmission of HIV-1.
2016 — Dr. Peter Piot is a known microbiologist for his research into Ebola and AIDs.
David L. Heymann is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, London and Chairman of the Board, Public Health England, UK. Previously he was the World Health Organization's Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment, and Representative of the Director-General for polio eradication.
Timeline of Speakers
- 1994 Jonas E. Salk, MD
- 1995 Karl Johnson, MD
- 1996 Robert Channock, MD
- 1997 Baruch Blumberg, MD
- 1998 Robert C. Gallo, MD
- 1999 Maurice R. Hilleman, PhD, DSc
- 2000 Michael B. A. Oldstone, MD
- 2001 Stanley N. Cohen, MD
- 2002 Harriet Robinson, PhD
- 2003 Richard D. Klausner, MD
- 2006 John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH
- 2007 Lawrence Corey, MD
- 2008 Douglas Richman, MD
- 2009 Mark Wainberg, PhD
- 2010 Caroline Hall, MD
- 2012 Anthony S. Fauci, MD
- 2013 Thomas C. Quinn, MD
- 2014 Bruce Walker, MD
- 2015 Julie Overbaugh, PhD
- 2016 Peter Piot, MD, PhD, FRCP
- 2017 David Heymann, MD
- 2018 Steven Holland, MD
- 2019 Anne Schuchat, MD
MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS
Wed., May 22, 2019, 8 a.m. – 9 a.m.
"Public Health in the Time of Cholera"
Anne Schuchat, M.D.
The 2019 Merigan Lecturer
Anne Schuchat, MD, is the Principal Deputy Director of CDC. She has been CDC’s principal deputy director since September 2015. She served as acting CDC director from January-July 2017 and February-March 2018.
Dr. Schuchat also served as director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases from 2006-2015 and Chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch from 1998-2005. She joined CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in 1988.
Dr. Schuchat played key roles in CDC emergency responses including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza response, the 2003 SARS outbreak in Beijing, and the 2001 bioterrorist anthrax response. Globally, she has worked on meningitis, pneumonia and Ebola vaccine trials in West Africa, and conducted surveillance and prevention projects in South Africa.
Dr. Schuchat graduated from Swarthmore College and Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at NYU’s Manhattan VA Hospital. Upon completing 30 years of service in 2018, Dr. Schuchat retired from the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service at the rank of Rear Admiral.
Dr. Thomas C. Merigan, Professor Emeritus