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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.
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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,
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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!
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June 3, 2014 - Together with Robin Robinson, I briefed Senate HELP staff (Harkin, Alexander, Burr, etc.) on MERS. Did it is the Dirksen Building.
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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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June 12, 2014 - Went to San Francisco to give Grand Rounds at Moffett (invited by Marcia Glass (Kat Glass's sister). Timed the trip to coincide with Ali's graduation from Stanford on June 13-15. Great time; extremely well-received by UCSF community. Visited with Eric Goosby, Jaime Sepulveda and others from UCSF; spent time with students and fellows. Chris and Megan flew to SF with me - I went north to UCSF and they went south to Palo Alto. That evening met in SF for dinner. Great time. Drove back to Palo Alto that night
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June 13-15, 2014 - Magnificent time at Stanford graduation events. Ali received multiple academic honors in addition to sports honors. Graduated "with distinction" , which means summa cum laude. Also, received Engineering Award and inducted into School of Engineering Honor Society. iscuss the situation. Socially, had great time. Dinner at NOLA sponsored by Chris and me and the parents of several of the seniors on Ali's boat - Ad Bax, Dawson's, etc.. Present at dinner were all the seniors on the boat - Anna Dawson (Olympian), Daphne Martschenko (AllAmerican), Kayla Cornale, Christina Bax, etc. Wonderful, joyous meal. On Thursday night Chris, Jenny, Megan, Ali and I drove to Half Moon Bay and had dinner at Miramar Restaurant by the sea - open pit fireplace and dining by the beach - great wine, calamari, etc. Seems not to get any better than this - so wonderfully proud of Ali who is truly a superstar - self-effacing, but a real superstar. Has another great lunch with the Ayers on Sunday afternoon before I took the "red-eye" back to DC. The formal graduation on Sunday had Bill and Melinda Gates as co-commencement speakers. They were good , but a bit self-congratulatory. I viewed the famous Stanford "Wacky Walk" entrance of the seniors. Ali and friends were dressed as "cars". Really fun.
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June 24-25, 2014 - Went to Aspen Ideas Festival. Gave 2 minute "Big Idea "during Opening Ceremony and was on panel on Emerging IDs with Tom Frieden and Yu Wang of China CDC. Moderated by Rich Besser (ABC News). Good panel. Many compliments for this and Big Idea. Met the usual DC glitterati at the festival - Walter Isaacson, Barbara Bush, Bill Frist, Corby Kumar, etc.
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June 29, 2014 - Interesting spin-off of my "Big Idea" at the Aspen Ideas Festival. My idea was that we can end the AIDS pandemic in 10 years (by 2024 - theme of festival - global health by 2024 and we were asked what single thing (big idea) do we think would greatly influence global health by 2024). Gov. Andrew Cuomo has stated that he wants to end the AIDS pandemic in NY State in 6 to 10 years. The NY Times wrote this up in the Sunday Times and quoted me since the reporter had heard about my Big Idea from the Aspen Festival. The article had me praising Gov. Cuomo and my saying that NY could be a model for the rest of the country.