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May 18, 2012 - Spoke at the NAS/IOM President's Circle Annual Meeting on the H5N1 issue. This is still hot among certain circles. Meeting took place at the House of Sweden at 2900 K Street, N.W. in Georgetown. Gave talk to IDSA Fellow at Bethesda Hyatt on "A Career at NIH".
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May 21, 2012 - Met with Sanaria people including Steve Hoffman today about an update on the work he is doing with his vaccine for malaria.
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May 23, 2012 - Had a great and moving evening at the Annual Sons of Italy National Education Leadership Awards Gala at the National Building Museum. I presented a scholarship to a student who will be going to Harvard next year. Various awards went to different people. Hillary Clinton got if for a Lifetime of Public Service and responded by video. Most moving moment of the night was when Tony Odierno (son of Gen. Ray Odierno), who lost his left arm in Iraq due to an RPG presented an award to Gen. Peter Pace, who is a Brooklyn boy and with whom I received the Presidential of Freedom and so I know him. Pete told the story of his first soldier whom he commanded who was killed in action in Viet Nam when Pete was a 22 year old 2nd Lieutenant. His name was Lance Corporal Guido Farinaro. Pete was incredibly moving and mentioned how throughout his entire military career he carried a picture of LCP Farinaro with him. Also, a little drama at the dinner. I was called to see and take care of the famous tenor Michael Amante who sings often at the Galas. Mike had recently (3 months) lost his wife to a cerebral hemorrhage. Mike is 49 years old. He is left caring for 3 children - 9, 7, and 5 years old. He is overwhelmingly stressed, did not sleep the night before and was clearly dehydrated. He is on several meds for hypercholesterolemia and high BP. He felt woozy and "spaced out". I tanked him up with fluids and he responded quickly and well. He resting heart rate went from 88 to 70. He then sang beautifully and at the end of the medley he pointed his finger at me (seated at a Table in the front). May 24, 25, 26, 2012 - Drove up to Princeton with Chris to watch Ali compete in the Women's NCAA National Championships. Ali had recently been promoted from the 2V boat to rowing Stroke for the 1V Eight boat!!!! Stanford had a mishap in the first heat when their rudder broke. Ali and her team were not to be put aback. They had the opportunity to row again in the reportage race and came out 1st among 7 boats and so entered the semi-finals. Their time of 6 min. 47 seconds was their best time yet this year. Unfortunately, they missed out in the semis even though they broke their own time record by rowing a 6 min. 22 second race. They were in a heat with the top 3 teams in the country - Virginia, Cal, and USC. She rows tomorrow in the "petite final".
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May 30-31, 2012 - Went to NYC to give Commencement Address at Brooklyn College and receive an honorary degree. Bright sunny day. I lot of déjà vu driving from Manhattan to Brooklyn through Atlantic Avenue and then Bedford Avenue. God bless Brooklyn College, they tried (for the first time in their history) have all 1600 graduates from all of their schools come on the stage to shake the hand of the President - Karen Gould. My co-recipient of an honorary doctorate was the jazz legend Cecil Taylor, a feeble old man, but very gentle. Sen. Chick Schumer came and said a few words to the graduates. Brooklyn Borough President gave a hilarious speech about Brooklyn. Had dinner with Jenny the night before. Went to Kefi restaurant on 85th and Columbus Avenue. I never really appreciated the West Side of Manhattan when I lived for so many years on the East Side. Jenny is an amazing young woman who is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants in life. She is currently a graduate student at Teachers College of Columbia University getting a Masters in Developmental Psychology. On May 30 right before I left for NYC, CNN's Wolf Blitzer's producer called and said that Wolf wanted me on CNN Situation Room to discuss a recent paper by Peter Hotez (formerly of GW and now at Baylor) who wrote a paper in PLoS journal saying that Chagas disease was the new HIV/AIDS. I like Peter, but I had to contradict this potentially misleading statement. I could not appear live and so CNN did a telephone interview and showed me testifying at a Congressional Hearing at the same time that they played my voiced interview. Nice trick.
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2012-06-01 00:00
Anthony S. Fauci
June 1, 2012 - NIAID had our annual spring policy retreat at the Hilton Hotel in Rockville which was a meeting between our group and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in order to determine possibilities of strengthening current collaborations and forging new collaborations. Present at the meeting were the senior leadership of the Institute together with Trevor Mundel (President of the Global Health Program for the BMGF), Nina Russell, Dan Hartmann, Chris Wilson and Jan..... The discussions went very well and I feel that our collaborations will strengthen. I was impressed by the sincerity of Trevor. In the early evening, paid tribute to Ed Tramont at a symposium in his honor at the USUHS across the street from NIH. Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit the DC area during the late afternoon and early evening.
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June 9, 2012 - Went with Chris to Annual Garden Party at the home of Jamie Gorelick and Rich Waldron. Usual good time with the usual Washington elite there, i.e. Ruth Marcus, Chris Matthews, etc. Always good to see Jamie and Rich. Wonder whether Jamie will ever get back into USG.
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June 12, 2012 - Had dinner over my house with the 3 week-day bachelors (i.e. their wives live and work in different cities): Harold Varmus (Connie in NYC); Gary Nabel (Betsy in Boston); and Eric Goosby (Nancy in San Francisco). I served a Ziti pasta with grilled shrimp and tomato sauce. Had great time - good friends all.
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June 14, 2012 - At the invitation of Larry Kramer, I attended the "official" opening of "The Normal Heart" at the Arena Stage Theater. Had dinner with Larry and NYC and DC theater notables in the absolutely beautiful new atrium in the new Arena Stage (totally different from when Chris and I had season tickets decades ago). The play was amazing - truly moving. Had reception afterwards and met the cast and the Director (George C. Wolfe) who, according to Larry, is the top Director on Broadway today.
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June 15, 2012 - Went to a cocktail reception honoring Larry Kramer at the home of Don and Ann Brown at 3005 Audubon Terrace, N.W.; Washington, DC). Ann is a childhood and high school friend of Larry from when he lived in DC. Larry went to Woodrow Wilson High School. Amazingly elegant home. Brought Chris as well as Megan and Ali, who was in DC for 3 days between Stanford (just finished her exams) and Seattle (summer job with Microsoft). Also met Larry's partner - David Webster - really nice man. Good that Megan and Ali and Chris got to see Larry. I explained to Meg and Ali what an iconic and controversial figure Larry was and is. Also, for past months I have been preparing for and putting together my Plenary Talk for the IAS on July 23. Need to get it done since I go to the big Harrison's meeting in Martha's Vineyard for 9 days right before the IAS meeting and need to get my talk finished and out of the way before I go to the Vineyard.