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April 24, 2014 - Went to private dinner at café Milano to celebrate swearing in tomorrow of Deborah Birx as Ambassador in charge of PEPFAR.
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April 25, 2014 - Swearing in of Deb Birx at Franklin Room of the State Department. Big crowd and festivity. Immediately after swearing in, went to PAHO (a block away) to give talk at the 10th Anniversary of the Sabin Vaccine Institute. Many old friends there - Peter Hotez, D.A. Henderson, Ciro deQuadros, etc.
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April 26, 2014 - Went to Chicago to deliver after dinner speech at the AAP Dinner at the Fairmont Hotel. AAP President Larry Jamison invited me. Spoke on The HIV/AIDS Saga: Science and Policy". Spoke of my experience with 5 Presidents. Big hit.
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April 28, 2014 - Went to NAS meeting at Fairmont Hotel in DC to defend Haynes and Kasper for membership. Response to them (in voting) was only fair to good.
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April 30, 2014 - Spoke at amfAR event at Kennedy Caucus Room at Senate Russell Building. Big affair. Sen. Harkin praised me; Kenneth Cole (fashion designer) introduced me. Many people there: Douglas Brooks (new head of ONAP); Jim Kim (World Bank); Paul Farmer was interviewed on stage by Judy Woodruff (NewsHour).
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May 2, 2014 - Still smoldering concern about MERS-CoV with 1st USA imported case from Saudi Arabia to Indianapolis. I appeared on Fox5 TV and AP TV.
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May 3, 2014 - Big social day. White House Correspondence Brunch at Katherine graham's old house at 2920 R Street, N.W. hosted by Tammy Haddad, Steve and Jean case, etc. Many, many celebrities. Had fun with cast of "House of Cards", particularly 0 495 with 141 US Sebastian Arcelus who plays Lucas Goodwin on the show. Very nice guy. His wife (Stephanie Block) was very taken up by the fact that I worked on HIV/AIDS. That evening attended White House Correspondence Dinner as gust of AP (Cynthia Sharp). Much fun. President Obama was hilarious as was comedian Joel McHale. Great evening.
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May 8, 2014 - First MERS-CoV case in Lebanon. Total numbers up to 495 with 141 deaths. I appeared on CNN International tonight. May 10. 2014 - Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (National Security Staff, White House and Special Assistant to the President, Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering WMD, and Arms Control had met me at a Wayne and Catherine Reynolds function some time ago and took the initiative to invite Chris and me for dinner at her home at 4920 Indian Lane, N.W. her husband Jeff is a neurosurgeon in Bay Area near SF. He is on faculty at USCF. Children (Richard and William go to STA and heard my recent lecture there). Also at dinner was Al Hunt (Bloomberg News - wife Judy Woodruff could not attend - was giving Commencement Address at Alleghany College). Also present was Diana Farrell (recently Deputy Director, National Economic Council at White House and currently CEO of Kinsey. Inc.). Very pleasant and fun evening.
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May 14, 2014 - Yesterday was 2nd imported case of MERS-CoV from Saudi Arabia - a health worker at a Saudi hospital. Went from Ryaad to London to Boston to Atlanta to Orlando. Went to University of Pennsylvania to give the 12th Annual Neal Nathan son Lecture on "Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: From Scientific Advances to Public Health Implementation". Spent whole day meeting with people many old friends - George Shaw, Beatrice Hahn, Larry Jameson. Megan had just decided last week to go to Penn, having also been accepted to Cornell, Columbia, Michigan, Hopkins, among others. Penn p [people are excited about Megan coming there. Had dinner at great restaurant (Bukkadan) in Philly before taking 9:10 PM Amtrak back to DC Did radio interview on new Guidelines for PrEP with CBS Radio in Men's room of the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia while I was waiting for the 9:10 PM train back to DC.