Fauci has been offered the position of director of the NIH several times, but has declined each time. He became head of the LCI's Clinical Physiology Section in 1974, and in 1980 was appointed chief of the NIAID's Laboratory of Immunoregulation. Careerįauci discusses his work in 2020 (four minutes)Īfter completing his medical residency in 1968, Fauci joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases's (NIAID) Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI). Fauci then did an internship and residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (now Weill Cornell Medical Center). At Cornell, he focused on adult internal medicine, mainly infectious diseases and the immune system. Fauci then attended Cornell University's Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medicine), graduating with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1966 ranked first in his class. After graduating in 1958, Fauci attended the College of the Holy Cross, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics with a pre-med track. He decided halfway through high school to become a physician. Jesuit's philosophy of "to be men for others" would have a lasting impact on Fauci. įauci attended Regis High School, a Jesuit school on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where he captained the school's basketball team despite standing only 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall. Fauci grew up Catholic, but now considers himself a humanist, stating that he thinks "that there are a lot of things about organized religion that are unfortunate, and to like to stay away from it." In 2021, he was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association. His maternal grandmother Raffaella Trematerra was a seamstress, and his maternal grandfather Giovanni Abys was a Swiss-born artist noted for his landscape and portrait painting, magazine illustrations in Italy, as well as graphic design for commercial labels, including olive oil cans. His paternal grandparents, Antonino Fauci and Calogera Guardino, were from Sciacca, and his maternal grandparents were from Naples. įauci's grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy in the late 19th century. When he was a child, Fauci developed a fascination with World War II, and played basketball and baseball during his spare time. The pharmacy was located in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, directly beneath the family apartment, previously in the Bensonhurst neighborhood. Fauci's mother also worked at a dry cleaner. Fauci's mother and sister worked the pharmacy's register, and Fauci delivered prescriptions and also worked the register. His father was a Columbia University-educated pharmacist who owned his pharmacy. Fauci (1910–2008) and is the youngest of two children born to both parents. Early life and educationĪnthony Fauci was born on December 24, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York City, to Eugenia Lillian ( née Abys 1909–1965) and Stephen A. In 2021, he was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association. After Joe Biden took office, Fauci began serving as one of the lead members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team and as Biden's chief medical advisor. Fauci's advice was frequently contradicted by Trump, and Trump's supporters alleged that Fauci was trying to politically undermine Trump's run for reelection. ĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic, he served under President Donald Trump as one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR. From 1983 to 2002, Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals. During his time as director of the NIAID, he made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiency diseases, both as a research scientist and as the head of the NIAID. Īs a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci has served the American public health sector in various capacities for more than fifty years and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. Anthony Stephen Fauci ( / ˈ f aʊ tʃ i/ FOW-chee born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.
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