Society Citation Award

The Society Citation is a discretionary award given in recognition of exemplary contributions to IDSA and outstanding discovery in the field of infectious diseases or a lifetime of outstanding achievement. More than one award may be given each year. 

2024 Winners: William G. Powderly, MD, FIDSA

William G. Powderly, MD, FIDSA,

was one of the first generation of infectious diseases physicians to embrace the care of people with HIV and was the founding chair of the HIV Medicine Association, and subsequently the first president of IDSA to come from that generation of HIV physicians. 

Dr. Powderly is the Dr. J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine and the Larry J. Shapiro Director of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He is also associate dean for clinical and translational science and director of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Science there, and co-director of the Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Powderly also previously served as dean of medicine and head of the School of Medicine at University College Dublin in Ireland. Dr. Powderly is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, the Royal College of Physicians (London) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  

For more than 30 years, Dr. Powderly has conducted HIV-related clinical research, much of it funded by NIH. His research has focused on opportunistic infections (especially fungal infections), metabolic complications and long-term outcomes of antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Powderly is the author of more than 500 articles, reviews and book chapters. He has been a member of many advisory groups on HIV and infectious diseases for NIH, CDC, the Canadian Institute for Health Research and the European Medicines Agency. As director of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University, Dr. Powderly has led the Institute to focus on implementation science, community partnerships, economic and policy research, and global health to broaden the impact of discovery science and to address disparities in health outcomes.  More recently, he oversaw Washington University’s clinical and translational research response to SARS-CoV-2 and was lead principal investigator for NIH’s ACTIV trials of immunomodulators in the treatment of severe COVID-19.  

Dr. Powderly chaired IDSA’s HIV Committee and led its transition to the HIV Medicine Association, serving as the inaugural chair of HIVMA. He was president of IDSA and a member of the Board of Directors and the Fellowship Program Directors Committee. During his presidency, Dr. Powderly implemented changes to diversify the leadership of the organization. As a result, IDSA’s leaders now more closely reflect the Society’s membership. 

For his leadership in HIV care and research and his contributions to IDSA and HIVMA, the Society is proud to honor Dr. Bill Powderly with a 2024 Society Citation Award. 

 

Past Society Citation Award Winners

2023	Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, MD, ScD, FIDSA Robert T. Schooley, MD, FIDSA
2022	John Brooks, MD Martin S. Hirsch, MD, FIDSA Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH H. Clifford Lane, MD, FIDSA
2021	Dial Hewlett, Jr., MD, FIDSA Suzanne F. Bradley, MD, FIDSA Henry Masur, MD, FIDSA Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA
2020	Adarsh Bhimraj, M.D., FIDSA
2020	Christopher A. Ohl, M.D., FIDSA
2019	Brian S. Schwartz, MD
	Steven K. Schmitt, MD, FIDSA
2018	Louis D. Saravolatz, MD, FIDSA
2017	Wendy S. Armstrong, MD, FIDSA Patrick Joseph, MD, FIDSA Dean, L. Winslow, MD, FIDSA
2016	Mark A. Leasure Bruce G. Gellin, MD, MPH, FIDSA Martin G. Myers, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS
2015	Helen W. Boucher, MD, FIDSA
2014	David L. Thomas MD, MPH, FIDSA
2013	Marguerite A. Neill, MD Catherine M. Wilfert, MD
2012	Myron S. Cohen, MD, FIDSA N. Cary Engleberg, MD, FIDSA Alan D. Tice, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA
2011	Carol J. Baker, MD, FIDSA Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, FIDSA
2010	John G. Bartlett, MD, FIDSA Theodore C. Eickhoff, MD, FIDSA
2009	Warren D. Johnson, Jr., MD, FIDSA
2008	Russell Petrak, MD
2007	Gary P. Wormser, MD, FIDSA Eduardo Gotuzzo, MD, FIDSA
2006	Larry J. Strausbaugh, MD, FIDSA
2005	George G. Jackson, MD Lawrence P. Martinelli, MD
2004	Stanley Falkow, PhD Walter T. Hughes, Jr., MD Emanuel Wolinsky, MD
2003	Morton N. Swartz, MD Julie Gerberding, MD, on behalf of the CDC staff
2002	Marvin Turck, MD C. Douglas Webb, PhD
2001	George W. Counts, MD
2000	Dennis George Maki, MD Dennis L. Stevens, MD, PhD
1999	Sydney Finegold, MD
1998	Porter Anderson, PhD John Robbins, MD Rachel Schneerson, MD David Smith, MD
1997	Johan Septimus Bakken, MD
1996	Donald A. Henderson, MD
1995	King Holmes, MD, PhD
1994	David Rogers, MD Edward Hook, III, MD
1993	Dorothy Horstmann, MD Samuel Katz, MD Harold Neu, MD
1992	Robert Austrian, MD Jay Sanford, MD
1988	Martha Yow, MD
1987	Margaret Pittman, PhD, MS
1986	Victor Nussenzweig, MD
1985	Robert Gallo, MD Luc Montagnier, CNRS Sheldon Wolff, MD
1984	Allen Steere, MD
1983	Maurice Hilleman, PhD Saul Krugman, MD
1982	James Todd, MD
1981	Don Brenner, MS, PhD William Cherry MS, PhD and Colleagues James Freeley, PhD Joseph McDade, PhD
1977	Edward Kass, MD, PhD, M