Pandemic flu webcast on 5/10/06
Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lectureship
The Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lectureship was established in 1983 to stimulate intellectual liaison between Medical Library Association (MLA) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
This year’s lecture is particularly poignant due to the death of Joseph Leiter on May 27, 2005. He was a major contributor in cancer research at the National Cancer Institute and then a leader at NLM as a champion of medical librarians and an informatics pioneer. Through this annual lecturership named in recognition of his excellence, his memory and spirit will remain alive.
2006 Joseph Leiter Lecture - May 10, 2006 - 1:30 3:00 pm
Lister Hill Auditorium/ Building 38A - National Library of Medicine/NIH - Bethesda, MD
Webcast available on day of lecture at
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Pandemic Influenza and Other
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Public Health Threat and the Research Agenda
Since 1984, Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the Director of NIAID, where he oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases such as influenza, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, malaria and illness from potential agents of bioterrorism. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.
Dr. Fauci’s lecture will provide an overview and status of the pandemic influenza and our nation’s ability to detect and counter bioterrorism based on information generated by biomedical research on disease-causing microorganisms and the immune system’s response to them.