Anthony Fauci: Im not 100 percent sure, but Im pretty sure I know why I didnt get into trouble. So people were painting my demand for protection sometimes in a little bit hyperbolic way, and thats what she heard when she came in. It was a very heavy argument for a week or two. You had an interesting relationship with the first President Bush. One was called it used to be called Wegeners granulomatosis now its called granulomatosis with vasculitis. He also led the NIAID research effort on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma, and allergies. Its Larry. What do you mean by that? 1996 - 2023 American AcademyofAchievement. Anthony Fauci: Actually, we had a deal when my girls were growing up. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - and a doctor for the National Institutes of Health for more than 50 years - Fauci had worked under six US presidents. Dr. Fauci continues to serve as Director of NIAID and as chief medical advisor to President Joseph Biden. They always tell you, Dont eat a meal before you go to bed. Well, for many years, my daughters and my wife and I would eat a meal late. Thats what I remember doing from the time I could ride my bicycle. They show the smoke bombs going off at the NIH. And I can guarantee you that when David Baltimore and Howard Temin were working on reverse transcriptase, they had no idea that we would have an HIV-AIDS epidemic many, many years later. All right, it went well.. And here I am, having a glass of pinot grigio with this guy, and he says, You know I love you Tony, but were going to do it. And they did it. As many of the first AIDS patients were gay men or intravenous drug users, the patient community quickly came to suspect that prejudice against them as members of stigmatized communities was the cause of institutional indifference or outright hostility, reflected in government policy. Everything is free in Regis High School. I love Rick Atkinsons books on war. When a trial was designed to see if it works and many of the patients with HIV infection were getting cytomegalovirus and some of them were going blind, and the protocol said, from the FDA and you understand why they did it; it was reasonable in order to see if this drug ganciclovir works against CMV, you wanted a pristine situation. RT @PhilipRucker: Asked why Dr. Fauci isn't at today's briefing, Trump said, "He's not here because we weren't discussing what he's best at." Fauci is best at mitigating infectious diseases, according to his credentials, and sits on the coronavirus task force. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and has advised eight presidents. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. | Siena College I want to do something that we have control of., And he said, Lets see if we can put something together because I firmly believe,he said, I, George W. Bush, firmly believe that, as a rich country, we have a moral obligation that when others throughout the world are suffering and dying, that when we have the capability of preventing that from happening, that we should do something about it. If you had smallpox, and I contracted it from you, I would have a grace period of a few days that you could actually vaccinate me even after I got exposed. Years and years ago, there were two investigators, Howard Temin and David Baltimore, who were working on trying to figure out how DNA when youre studying DNA codes for RNA but what about if you have RNA, how does RNA reproduce itself? You need to elevate your legs. You need to do this and you need to do that. He helped pioneer the field of human immunoregulation by making important basic scientific observations that underpin the current understanding of the regulation of the human immune response. Dr. Anthony Fauci Received Big Pay Increase To Prevent Pandemics - Forbes At a high school level, I was really quite good. In 2005, he received the National Medal of Science for his scientific accomplishments. Im going to go to the beach. And billions of dollars. And he said, Dont worry about it. During that time, he began treating patients with autoimmune diseases where the body made abnormal immune responses against its own tissues, including blood vessels. Organizations are springing up, there are talks of emergency medical funds, infrastructure is being built in different places. But even before that, I was starting to listen to the things that they were saying. 'The Most Dangerous Person in the World Is Randi Weingarten' But it was very, very heavily weighted to the classics, and that continued over it was something that I tell my children about and they shake their heads in disbelief. Anthony Fauci: Right. And you never, ever left the hospital unless your patient was stable. Because I became interested in that, even though I was clinically, fundamentally, an infectious disease person, I kind of switched my interest not giving up the interest of infectious diseases about studying how the immune system is regulated. Looking at painting or sculpture? Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and It was an infant field. I was fascinated by the intricacies of how the immune system was regulated. I had this dual interest of infectious diseases and the immune system and how the immune system responds. I became a real subway jockey from a very early age. In 2007, President George W. Bush honored him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor, for Faucis role in creating the PEPFAR program. Ill tell the boss and well see what happens. And then the next thing I knew, I was asked down to the White House for something else, and the president says, You know, I think that was the right thing to do. Fast-forward X number of years, I was given the public-health-something distinguished award for doing this. What my wife was talking about is that she came in to the NIH first as a nurse, and I was away giving some talks in China, and she had heard about you know, on rounds, when you make rounds, I expect everybody to know everything about the patient, to be able to present it in a crisp, articulate way. Since I was interested in the immune system, I was saying, Is there any way that we can suppress the immune system enough to suppress the disease but not enough to make a person susceptible to the secondary infections you get when you knock out someones immune system? So, for example, the drugs that were used for cancer cyclophosphamide, a variety of other drugs when given to people who have cancer, you want to completely kill all the cells. Anthony Fauci - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thats the thing. I dont have time to go to museums a lot, but I have this thing about history. Dr. Fauci, thank you so much for your time with us. Now, the only ones who really needed that were HIV-infected individuals. So it just was really an extraordinary experience. Tell us about Regis High School. Weve come so far since you took over NIAID. Large numbers of patients in urban centers mostly young men presented with severely impaired immune systems, with devastating opportunistic infections. So thats why she thought I was this really bad guy, but I wasnt because if you were really good, and you did your job well, we were great. So I absolutely loved medical school. Anthony Fauci: I did. Four high-profile doctors who are challenging the COVID-19 response Anthony Fauci: No. So I decided that I was going to say, Hey, I made a lot of accomplishments here. Ive seen really, really good doctors get into situations where, through no fault of their own or something that was an accident, you slipped up and say, Oh my God, what have I done? Fortunately, Ive not had that happen. Usually, its DNA RNA protein. But Ill give you a really cogent example of basic research that has ultimately transformed diseases.