2023 Featured Lecturer
Dr. Emily Erbelding, is an infectious disease physician and scientist. Since 2016, she has served as the Director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH. In this role, she oversees a $2.2 billion extramural research portfolio in basic, translational and clinical research covering all infectious disease pathogens except HIV.
The Smadel Lectureship, created in Dr. Smadel’s memory, was first given by
D. Carleton Gajdusek, MD, in 1977.
Past Joseph E. Smadel Lecture Winners
| 2023 | Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH |
| 2022 | David M. Aronoff, MD, FIDSA, FAAM |
| 2021 | Keith P. Klugman, MD, PhD |
| 2020 | Upinder Singh, MD, FIDSA |
| 2019 | Gail Bolan, MD |
| 2018 | Monica Farley, MD, FIDSA |
| 2017 | Ruth Lynfield, MD, FIDSA |
| 2016 | Patricia Griffin, MD, FIDSA |
| 2015 | Bruno Moonen* (In Honor of Alan Magil) |
| 2014 | Robert A. Weinstein, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA |
| 2013 | Myron S. Cohen, MD, FIDSA |
| 2012 | Diane Havlir, MD, FIDSA |
| 2011 | William Schaffner, MD, FIDSA |
| 2010 | Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA |
| 2009 | Myron Levine, MD, FIDSA |
| 2008 | Jane E. Koehler, MA, MD |
| 2007 | Kathryn M. Edwards, MD, FIDSA |
| 2006 | Allan R. Roland, MD |
| 2005 | Lyle Petersen, MD, MPH |
| 2004 | Eric Ottesen, MD |
| 2003 | Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, FIDSA |
| 2002 | Donald A. Henderson, MD |
| 2001 | Karl Johnson, MD |
| 2000 | Anna Schuchat, MD, FIDSA |
| 1999 | Lou Miller, MD |
| 1998 | Thomas Wellems, MD, PhD |
| 1997 | Brett Finlay, PhD |
| 1996 | Scott B. Halstead, MD, FIDSA |
| 1995 | David T. Dennis, MD, MPH |
| 1994 | Roy Anderson, FRS |
| 1993 | Richard Guerrant, MD |
| 1992 | Alfred Sommer, MD |
| 1991 | Charles Carpenter, MD |
| 1990 | Zanvil Cohn, MD |
| 1989 | Thomas Grayston, MD |
| 1988 | P. Fredrick Sparling, MD, FIDSA |
| 1987 | Jack M. Gwaltney, MD |
| 1986 | Richard Johnson, MD |
| 1985 | Franklin Neva, MD |
| 1984 | Maurice Hilleman, PhD |
| 1983 | Garrison Rapmund, MD |
| 1982 | Richard Hornick, MD |
| 1981 | Baruj Benacerraf, MD |
| 1980 | Robert Chanock, MD |
| 1979 | Philip Russell, MD |
| 1978 | Philip Paterson, MD |
| 1977 | Carleton Gajdusek, MD |