Faculty Awards & Honors
William A. Petri, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
President-elect, President, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2001 – 2004)
Editor, Infection and Immunity (1999 – 2004)
Parasitic Diseases Panel U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program (1998 – 2002)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Scholar in Molecular Parasitology (1996 – 2001)
Squibb Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America (1999)
Gerald Richard Donowitz, M.D.
Governor's Council, 2000-2001 of the Virginia Chapter, ACP-ACIP
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching 1999
Attending of the Year Award 1998-1999
Barry M. Farr, M.D., M.Sc.
Vice-President, President-elect, President, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (2000- 2003)
Editor, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2002-
Richard Littleton Guerrant, M.D.
Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
President, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1996-1997.
Recipient of the University-wide Henderson Inventor of the Year Award, 1997
Recipient of the Abbott Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America, 1997
Editorial Board, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1992—Present, Biomedical Journal, 1994—Present
Keri K. Hall, M.D.
Marshall University Bertha and Lake Polan Award
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Echols Scholar, University of Virginia
Rodman Scholar, University of Virginia
Frederick G. Hayden, M.D.
Editorial Boards: Antiviral Therapy; International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents; Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Antiviral Research.
James H. Nakano Citation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1996)
Clinical Virology Award, Pan American Society for Clinical Virology (2001)
Erik L. Hewlett, M.D.
Division B Lecturer, American Society for Microbiology, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998
Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenesis, 1998
Paul S. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Award, Department of Medicine 2002
Director, Centre for Functional Microbial Genomics and Host Defense, 2001-present
Teaching Excellence Award, Medical Microbiology, University of Tennessee, 1983-84
Eric R. Houpt, M.D.
2002 Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines Young Investigator Award in Vaccine Development
Certification in Clinical Tropical Medicine/Traveler's Health, American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Molly Hughes, M.D., PhD.
ASTMH Young Investigator’s Award
Janine Jagger, M.P.H., Ph.D.
MacArthur Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2002.
Eminent Scholar, Commonwealth of Virginia, University of Virginia; Becton Dickinson Professorship in Health Care Worker Safety, endowed professorship, 1996.
Henderson Inventor of the Year Award, University of Virginia Patent Foundation, 1996.
Distinguished Inventor Award, 1988, Intellectual Property Owners, Inc., Washington , D.C. (for retractable needles to reduce the risk of needlestick injuries in health care workers).
Editorial Board, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 1991–present.
Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award
Dean H. Kedes, M.D., Ph.D.
Pew Scholar in the Medical Sciences (2000-2004)
Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award (2000-2003)
Gerald Lee Mandell, M.D.
NIH-NIAID - National Advisory Council 2000-2004
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases (1969-2001)
President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (1993-4)
Bristol Award, 2000 of the Infectious Diseases Society of America “For Distinguished
Achievement in the Field of Infectious Diseases”
Leon G. Smith Infectious Disease Institute Hall of Fame
Honored by Establishment of Chair, “Gerald L. Mandell/Bayer Corporation Professorship in Internal Medicine” May 2000.
2002 Cornell University Medical College Distinguished Alumnus Award
Barbara J. Mann, Ph.D.
Bailey K. Ashford Medal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for distinguished work in Tropical Medicine
Editorial Board of Infection and Immunity
Scientific Program Committee for American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Christopher H. Parsons, M.D.
IDSA Kass Award, 2002
Glaxo Smith-Kline HIV Fellow Award, 2002
Farrow Medical Alumni Foundation Fellowship Award, 2001
Co-editor, Osler Medical Journal, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, 1999-2001
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine, 1998
Magna Cum Laude, Kenyon College (chemistry), 1993
Kenyon Honors Science Scholarship, 1989-1993
Michael Frank Rein, M.D.
Chair, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Therapeutics Trials Data and Safety Monitoring Board, National Institutes of Health (2002 – Present)
Elected Counselor, Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Virginia Chapter (2001-present)
Medical School Class of 2005 Robley Dunglison Award for Teaching Excellence Medical School Class of 2006 Robley Dunglison Award for Teaching Excellence
William Michael Scheld, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Virginia, 2000
Chair, American Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty Board in Infectious Diseases (2000- 2004)
Council, Infectious Diseases Society of America (1997- )
Vice president (1999-2000), President-elect (2001-2002), President (2003-2004); National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
Vice-president (2000-2001); President-elect (2001-2002); President (2002-2003); Past-president (2003-2004); Infectious Diseases Society of America
Costi D. Sifri, M.D.
Maxwell Finland Award for Excellence in Infectious Disease Research,
The Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society and Massachusetts General Hospital, 2003
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 1999-2002
Dean’s Award (service and leadership award), University of Oregon, 1989
Centurion Award (leadership award), University of Oregon, 1988-1989
University of Oregon Presidential Scholar, 1984-1989
Gregory Clarke Townsend, M.D.
Clinical Excellence Award, University of Virginia Internal Medicine 2000
School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003
Brian Wispelwey, M.D.
School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004
Section Editor (Infectious Disease) Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
Literature Alert Editor, Current Infectious Disease Reports
Basic Sciences Teaching Award (2001)
James L. Tullis Outstanding Alumnus Award, New England Deaconess/Harvard Medical School
University of Virginia Dean's Award for Clinical Excellence
Harrison Award for Overall Teaching Excellence in the Health System
AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award