Physician-scientist John G. Bartlett, chief of the
Division of
Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine and an
internationally renowned authority on AIDS and other
infectious diseases, received the prestigious 2005 Maxwell
Finland Award for scientific achievement from the National
Foundation for Infectious Diseases at a ceremony held March
31 at the Ritz Carlton in Pentagon City, Va.
Former President Bill Clinton was honored at the
event, receiving the 2005 Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Award
for "humanitarianism contributions to the health of
humankind" from former presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy
Carter.
"This is a tremendous honor for John Bartlett and a
fitting tribute to his quarter century of truly
groundbreaking work at Hopkins," says Edward D. Miller,
dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins
Medicine. "The spread of infectious diseases, such as HIV
and Ebola virus, has been effectively challenged by medical
leaders of his caliber, and our continued efforts depend
upon others following his lead."
Bartlett, who also is the Stanhope Baynes Jones
Professor of Medicine, has for 25 years led the School of
Medicine's worldwide efforts to understand, pre- vent and
treat AIDS. He was the first to direct clinical trials in
Baltimore of new treatments that prevent HIV from
replicating, and he pioneered the development of dedicated
inpatient and outpatient medical care for HIV-infected
patients. Bartlett co-chaired the national committee that
drafted the first and all subsequent treatment guidelines
for HIV-infected patients. He counsels numerous medical
societies and health ministries around the world on
infectious diseases in general and on AIDS specifically.
"John Bartlett is literally an infectious diseases
doctor's greatest resource for information, and he is
constantly called upon for his expertise," says Thomas
Quinn, a professor of medicine and deputy director of the
Division of Infectious Diseases at Hopkins.
Bartlett's major research interests have dealt with
anaerobic infections, pathogenic mechanisms of Bacteroides
fragilis, anaerobic pulmonary infections and Clostridium
difficile-associated colitis. Since joining Hopkins in
1980, he has focused on HIV/AIDS, managed care of patients
with HIV infection and, most recently, bioterrorism. He has
authored 470 articles, 282 book chapters and 61 editions of
14 books.
Bartlett received his undergraduate degree from
Dartmouth and his medical degree at Upstate Medical Center
in Syracuse, N.Y. He completed his training in internal
medicine at the Brigham Hospital in Boston and the
University of Alabama and received his fellowship training
in infectious diseases at UCLA, where, in 1970, he joined
the faculty. He later moved to the faculty of Tufts
University School of Medicine and served as associate chief
of staff for research at the Boston VA Hospital.
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