May 22, 2014 - Gave Commencement Address at Hopkins Medical School and then

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1. 2014-05-18 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   May 18, 2014 - First transmission of infection (sero-conversion) from the Indiana imported case to someone who had "handshake" contact. Again, news blow up. I taped segment for the Today Show (NBC) to appear on May 19.
2. 2014-05-19 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   May 19, 2014 - MSNBC wants me this AM. Return of the "problem". CDC complaining to HHS that I am on TV for MERS-CoV even though the producers are specifically asking for me. They do not want me talking about "their issue". Amazing!! Typical situation where HHS says no to me, MSNBC cannot contact CDC and arrange in time and so now nobody from HHS is on TV and the slot goes to a health official from Illinois. The communications people from HHS are truly idiots to listen to CDC and back them. Courtney Billet blows HHS (Bill Hall, Sye Tait, Ira ?) away with several emails telling them how ridiculous this approach is. CDC is totally paranoid. I really wonder if Tom Frieden knows about this or if it is just the Communications people. Also did AP TV today for wide distribution to networks. Also, White House very interested in Antimicrobial Resistance and they are putting together a White paper through NSS, PCAST, OSTP. We are obviously playing role in its being drawn up
3. 2014-05-20 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   May 20, 2014 - Travelled to Los Angeles to receive the "Heroes in the Struggle" award from the Black AIDS Institute (BAI). Phill Wilson (President of the BAI) presided. Co-awardees were Mo'Nique (actress/comedian who won Academy Award in 2009 for Acting in the film "Precious") and Jamar Rogers (entertainer formerly on The Voice). Red Carpet ceremony before the awards held at the Director's Guild of America on Sunset Boulevard. Jamal Rogers was a beautiful young man who was so thankful to me for "my saving his life by developing drugs for AIDS". He found out he was HIV infected (drug use in the South Bronx) a few years ago. He is a very popular entertainer with beautiful voice. All-around good time. Stayed at the old Hollywood hotel - Millennium Biltmore.
4. 2014-05-21 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   May 21, 2014 - Went to Thai Embassy on 1024 Wisconsin Avenue to a reception in my honor and in honor of co-awardee Jim Kim (World Bank President) for our winning the Prince Mahidol Award last January. Megan and Christine came. Of note, the next day, the Thai army pulled a military coup to take over the government of Thailand.
5. 2014-05-22 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci
   May 22, 2014 - Gave Commencement Address at Hopkins Medical School and then drove immediately back from Baltimore to attend the Sons of Italy NELA Awards Gala Dinner at the National Building Museum. Usual good time. Seated at my table was Leon Panetta, Gen. James Jones, Franco Nuschese. Also we schmoozed with General Ray Odierno (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chris Dodd (now president of Motion Picture Academy), Master of Ceremonies Joe Montegna.
6. 2014-05-25 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   May 25, 2014 - The HBO movie "The Normal Heart" played tonight. Larry Kramer's play about the early years of AIDS. I say the play X2 and now the movie was terrific. Mark Ruffalo played Ned Weeks and Julia Roberts played the polio physician. P staff (Harkin,
7. 2014-05-28 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   May 28, 2014 - Gave the John E. Enders Lecture at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Great audience, SRO. Extremely well-received. Spent entire day meeting with faculty and students. They are so young, I feel like some historic figure to them. Some were not even born yet when the AIDS epidemic was recognized in 1981. I spoke on "Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: From Scientific Advances to Public health Implementation". Went up the night before and had dinner with Jenny in the North End. She is doing great. Just finished the first year of her 6 year Ph.D program at Boston College in Clinical Psychology. Had tough year following her bicycle accident that resulted in a severe concussion. Recovery had been slow, but she is much improved now with some residual headaches. May 30 - June 1, 2014 - Went to Indianapolis to watch Ali row for Stanford Varsity 1 boat in the NCAA Women's crew Championship Tournament. Went with Chris and Megan and met Jenny coming from Boston at the Indianapolis Airport. Stanford and Ali have been amazing this year. Stanford was not expected to get to NCAA tournament, yet they won the "Big Row" against arch-rival Cal-Berkeley. Then they won the PAC-12 Tournament and now they are in NCAA. Ali was selected as the Scholar-Athlete of the Year in the PAC-12 for Women's Crew!! This is huge since she was first among all women crew members in the PAC-12. She had the highest GPA (4.05) of all athletes in any sport in the PAC-12. Also, she was chosen for the 3rd year in a row as the first team Academic All-PAC-12 team. She also was voted as "most inspirational" by her team mates In the NCAA tournament they won the semi-finals by 4/100ths of a second. Had a somewhat disappointing Grand Finals Race coming out 6th in the race (started off slow and could not catch up) and 4th overall for the tournament. Ali was obviously disappointed, but what a year she had!
8. 2014-06-03 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   June 3, 2014 - Together with Robin Robinson, I briefed Senate HELP staff (Harkin, Alexander, Burr, etc.) on MERS. Did it is the Dirksen Building.
9. 2014-06-09 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   June 9, 2014 - Partook in CSIS conference on TB at their headquarters at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W. Good symposium. Shared panel with my dear friend Eric Goosby

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