Carlos del Rio, an internationally known clinician and epidemiologist, has been named interim dean for Emory School of Medicine. He volition statesman his assignment connected March 1.
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Emory University has appointed Carlos del Rio, MD, an internationally known clinician and epidemiologist, arsenic interim dean for the Emory University School of Medicine. He volition besides service arsenic interim main world serviceman for Emory Healthcare. He volition statesman his relation connected March 1, erstwhile Vikas Sukhatme, MD, ScD, steps down arsenic dean to instrumentality to the Emory faculty.
“Dr. Carlos Del Rio is an eminent planetary person successful medicine and nationalist health, and I look guardant to his contributions astatine this clip of modulation for the Emory School of Medicine,” says Emory University President Gregory L. Fenves. “He understands the relation of our School of Medicine, and volition physique connected the accomplishments of Dean Sukhatme who acceptable this schoolhouse connected a people for continued occurrence successful its tripartite ngo of education, probe and objective care.”
Currently, del Rio is the Leon L. Haley, Jr. MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine successful the Division of Infectious Diseases for Emory School of Medicine and enforcement subordinate dean for Emory astatine Grady. He is besides a prof of planetary wellness and prof of epidemiology successful the Rollins School of Public Health. Del Rio is co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and co-PI of the Emory-CDC HIV Clinical Trials Unit and the Emory Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit. He antecedently served arsenic main of the Emory Medical Service astatine Grady Memorial Hospital from 2001 to 2009 and seat of the Hubert Department of Global Health from 2009 to 2019.
“Dr. del Rio is simply a renowned physician, researcher and epidemiologist who is dedicated to educating and grooming aboriginal physicians and protecting the wellness of individuals astir the world,” says Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH, Emory’s enforcement vice president for wellness affairs, enforcement manager for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and vice seat of the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors. “Under Dr. del Rio’s absorption and leadership, Emory School of Medicine volition proceed to beryllium a person successful world medicine and further heighten the Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s ngo to amended wellness outcomes, cure diseases and prevention lives.”
For much than 2 decades, del Rio has worked with marginalized populations to amended objective attraction and outcomes successful the U.S. and overseas and was precocious recognized by the CDC Office of Minority Health and Health Equity arsenic a Health Equity Champion. His enactment has focused connected research, argumentation improvement and disseminating technological findings regarding planetary nationalist wellness crises specified arsenic COVID-19 and HIV prevention and the HIV continuum of care. Del Rio is presently the HIV/AIDS main conception exertion for NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases and subordinate of the editorial committee of Journal of AIDS, Vaccines and Global Public Health. He has co-authored 30 publication chapters and implicit 500 technological papers.
“Carlos del Rio is an outstanding student whose enactment has eased the planetary load of HIV and different infectious diseases, arsenic good arsenic a passionate advocator for equitable wellness attraction for all,” says Ravi V. Bellamkonda, provost and enforcement vice president for world affairs astatine Emory University. “With his heavy cognition of Emory and committedness to best-in-class aesculapian education, probe and diligent care, we are fortunate to person him service arsenic the interim dean of the School of Medicine, and look guardant to his advancing the ambitious goals and advancement the schoolhouse has made nether the enactment of Dean Vikas Sukhatme.”
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, del Rio advised municipal, authorities and nationalist leaders and was a predominant root for planetary media to amended and pass the nationalist astir the ongoing wellness crisis. He presently serves connected the nationalist advisory committee of the COVID Collaborative, which focuses connected processing statement recommendations and engaging with U.S. leaders connected effectual argumentation and coronavirus response. He was besides a subordinate of the WHO Influenza A(H1N1) Clinical Advisory Group and of the CDC Influenza A(H1N1) Task Force during the 2009 pandemic.
Del Rio presently serves arsenic president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is besides seat of the Scientific Advisory Board of PEPFAR and a subordinate of the UNAIDS Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee. In 2022, del Rio was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was besides elected to the National Academy of Medicine successful 2013 and elected arsenic the International caput of the National Academy of Medicine successful 2020.
Among del Rio’s galore honors are the James H. Nakano Citation received successful 2001 and awarded by the CDC for an outstanding technological insubstantial published successful 2000; the Emory University Marion V. Creekmore Achievement Award for Internationalization; the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory University, the highest grant conferred by Emory to a module oregon unit subordinate who has importantly enriched the intelligence and civic beingness of the Emory community; the Ohtli Award from the Government of Mexico for enactment that benefits communities of Mexican root surviving successful the U.S.; the APHA Award for Excellence successful Public Health; and the MAP International Bill Foege Global Health Award.
In 2021, helium was recognized by the Carnegie Corporation of New York arsenic a “Great Immigrant, Great American” and by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms with the Phoenix Award, the City of Atlanta’s highest honor, for his aesculapian guidance and enactment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Del Rio is simply a subordinate of the committee of directors of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and of the Atlanta Opera.
“I americium honored and humbled to service arsenic interim dean of Emory School of Medicine and privation to convey Dr. Sukhatme for his enactment arsenic dean since 2017,” says del Rio. “As a doc who archetypal came to Emory arsenic a visiting aesculapian pupil successful 1982 and joined the module successful 1996, I americium committed to the instauration and to our students, trainees, module and staff.
“As a Hispanic physician, I americium profoundly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and look guardant to moving with each stakeholders to proceed to beforehand Emory’s relation arsenic a starring instauration successful education, biomedical probe and diligent care.”
A autochthonal of Mexico, del Rio attended aesculapian schoolhouse astatine Universidad La Salle and completed interior medicine and infectious diseases residencies astatine Emory University. Prior to rejoining Emory successful 1996, helium served arsenic enforcement manager of the National AIDS Council of Mexico (CONASIDA, the national bureau of the Mexican authorities liable for AIDS Policy passim Mexico). Del Rio’s spouse, Jeannette Guarner, MD, is besides a doc and Emory School of Medicine prof who serves arsenic vice seat for module affairs successful the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
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