{"id":43918,"date":"2017-02-09T14:55:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=43918"},"modified":"2017-02-10T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:11:05","slug":"commencement-speaker-niaid-director-anthony-fauci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/02\/09\/commencement-speaker-niaid-director-anthony-fauci\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement Speaker: NIAID Director Anthony Fauci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/02\/ASF-2010-636x531.jpg\" alt=\"COM-commencement speaker 2017\" class=\"wp-image-43919 alignright\" height=\"179\" width=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/02\/ASF-2010-636x531.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/02\/ASF-2010-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/02\/ASF-2010-1024x855.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases\u00a0(NIAID), will be the guest speaker at the MD and PhD commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 18.\u00a0 He has served as NIAID director since 1984 and oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV\/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies. The NIAID budget for fiscal year 2017 is approximately $4.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci lectures all over the world and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest honor given to a civilian by the President of the United States). He has advised five Presidents and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on HIV\/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>Learn <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=kiyypxzab.0.0.zd5x4hsab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.niaid.nih.gov%2Fabout%2Fanthony-s-fauci-md\">more<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=kiyypxzab.0.0.zd5x4hsab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.niaid.nih.gov%2Fabout%2Fanthony-s-fauci-md\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Fauci, MD, will be the guest speaker at the MD and PhD commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,91,123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43918"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43967,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918\/revisions\/43967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}