Oct. 23, 2012 - Met with Howard Koh (Assist. Sec. for Health) and Deputy Ron

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1. 2012-10-15 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 15, 2012 - Attended the Elton John AIDS Foundation Benefit Gala at Cipriani's Restaurant on Wall Street by special invitation of Sir Elton John whom I had met at the IAS meeting in DC in July, 2012. The entertainment by Stevie Nicks was amazing. Many people came up to me thanking me for my work. Most of these I had never met before. Heavy representation of donors and business luminaries.
2. 2012-10-16 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 16, 2012 - Spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology (Bob Gallo's Institute) held at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore. Took train from NYC (Elton John Gala) directly to Baltimore.
3. 2012-10-17 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 17, 2012 - Participated at the National Press Club in the launching of the WHO Global TB Report. Panel moderated by Jeanne Meserve (old friend from CNN, now with WTOP) and neighbor. On panel was Mario Raviglione (WHO), Ken Castro (CDC), someone from USAID, someone from PEPFAR.
4. 2012-10-18 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 18-19, 2012 - Went to Cornell Medical School Reunion and gave Keynote Lecture on Ending the AIDS Pandemic. Went up night before (Oct. 18) and had dinner with Jenny at Gazala Restaurant. Great time with her. On the evening of Oct. 19, had class of 1966 reunion dinner at Nino's Restaurant on 1st Avenue between 72 and 73rd Street. Really great to see some of the old crew, many of whom have retired. They were all very gracious in saying how proud they were to have been my classmates. Great to see Patty Downs, Suzie Stewart, Mark Kaplan, Mike Dosik, Dave Fraser, David Tucker, Jim McSweeney, Carmine Bedotto, Frank Duggan, Randy Bell, among many others.
5. 2012-10-23 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci
   Oct. 23, 2012 - Met with Howard Koh (Assist. Sec. for Health) and Deputy Ron Valdesarri in my conference room 7A-24. They wanted to discuss and were actually putting pressure on me/us at NIH to put together a guidelines panel for treatment of HCV. They clearly are getting pressure from constituents. Since we (NIH) have done such a great job on the HIV treatment guidelines for HHS, they wanted us to do the same for HCV. Problem is that if we start doing guidelines for HCV, then other diseases would want us to do guidelines and we should not be in the guidelines business. Howard was friendly and somewhat fawning over me. Ron Valdesarri in my opinion is somewhat of a jerk.
6. 2012-10-26 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 26, 2012 - Participated in a panel on Global Health and award ceremony at Georgetown. Mark Dybul was given the Timothy Healy Award. Panel consisted of me, Mark, Eric Goosby and Barbara Bush (daughter) with Marty Federov moderating. Good time and enjoyable to do this with good friends. lection handily
7. 2012-10-27 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 27, 2012 - Spoke at Panel of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Achievement. Panel held at Top of the Hay Adams in the Hay-Adams Hotel. I led off the panel speaking on Ending the AIDS Pandemic and an AIDS-Free Generation. Followed by Pulitzer Prize winning Poet Louise Gluck and Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien. Night of Oct. 27 went to Gala Dinner of the Academy at the Willard Hotel - Reception is Crystal Room; Black Tie Dinner in Willard Room. Typical classy Catherine and Wayne Reynolds Affair. Great entertainment topped off by Aretha Franklin. Again, Catherine and Wayne gave Chris and me the best tables right in front of the stage. Usual terrific guests. Wolf Blitzer MC'd. Colin Powell was dancing on stage with Aretha Franklin. Lots of fun. At my Table - Chris and Kathleen Matthews, Bill Cohen and wife Janet Langhart; current USA Poet Laureate Natasha Threthewey, economist (?) and his girlfriend Heather Hughes (29 yrs old and amazingly beautiful and friendly), Attorney General Eric Holder and wife Dr. Sharon Malone.
8. 2012-10-29 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 29, 2012 - Beginning of monster hurricane "Sandy". Supposed to be the worst storm in memory with convergence of a true Atlantic Ocean Hurricane with a Nor-Easter coming from Canada and the West. All airports (DCA, IAD LGA Kennedy, etc) and public ground transportation (Amtrack, METRO, NYC subways) up the entire East Coast of USA pre-emptively closed prior to the storm. Storm scheduled to peak here in DC tonight and into tomorrow. I came to work since there is an almost 100% chance that my house will lose power since even lesser storms cause power outages in my neighborhood. Likely will sleep here at NIH tonight. Stay tuned...... Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 2012- "Sandy" totally devastated parts of the East Coast, particularly NYC and New Jersey shore. One of the worst, if not the worst "natural" disasters to strike NYC. Wall Street under water. Flooding of the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel and all NYC subway tunnels. Con Ed plant exploded and all of lower Manhattan without power. Had to evacuate Bellevue-NY University Hospital. Atlantic City destroyed. Truly historic.
9. 2012-11-06 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Nov. 6, 2012 - As I had predicted over and over again, Obama won re-election handily with 330 electoral votes.

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