It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. William G. Powderly will be named the Larry J. Shapiro Distinguished Professor in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences on August 1st.
Dr. Powderly is currently the Dr. J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine and Director of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS), and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science at Washington University School of Medicine (WashU Medicine).
Dr. Powderly received his undergraduate and graduate education at University College Dublin in Ireland. Dr. Powderly completed his internship at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, and was a registrar in medicine in Ireland before coming to the United States for an infectious diseases fellowship at WashU Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London and a Fellows of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA).
Dr. Powderly has had a very distinguished career here at WashU, directing the WashU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and serving as Co-Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases from 1995 to 2004, when he left to return to Ireland to become Head of the Department of Medicine at University College Dublin and ultimately Dean of Medicine and Head of the School of Medicine and Medical Science at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. There, he also served as Chief Academic Officer. Fortunately we were able to recruit him back to WashU Medicine in 2013 as Director of the Institute of Public Health, Director of the Global Health Center, and Co-Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine. In 2016, he became the Larry J. Shapiro Director of the Institute of Public Health. The Institute of Public Health has subsequently been integrated into the new Jane and Andy Bursky School of Public Health at WashU. Since 2019, Dr. Powderly has been Director of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and, since 2020, Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science at WashU Medicine.
Dr. Powderly is an outstanding clinical investigator and physician who has made major contributions to our understanding of the role of opportunistic infections in people living with HIV/AIDS and leading clinical trials of new therapies for the prevention and control of opportunistic and fungal infections in HIV/AIDS and other immunocompromising conditions. He has been recognized with a number of honors and awards, including the Pillar of Support Award from the WashU Medicine Academic Women’s Network for his outstanding mentorship, the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award at WashU, and the Society Citation from the IDSA. He has served as Chair of the IDSA Foundation and as President of the IDSA. He also served on the steering committee of the national CTSA organization and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Powderly is recognized as an outstanding mentor and leader for faculty development and training programs and has served on the editorial boards of multiple major infectious diseases journals. He has played a major role in leading the Division of Infectious Diseases and expanding clinical trials and clinical and translational research at WashU Medicine. In his current role as Principal Investigator of the CTSA, he has accelerated access to resources and infrastructure and led the development of policies and procedures to improve clinical trials, industry-sponsored trials, and translational research across institutions. He has also fostered significant advancements in global health through the recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty and the development of training programs in global health and implementation and dissemination science. As Director of the Institute of Public Health, he made major inroads in advancing the development of public health sciences at WashU that ultimately helped lead to the development of the new Jane and Andy Bursky School of Public Health.
Dr. Powderly has excelled at every phase of his career as an infectious diseases faculty member, division leader, institutional leader, and pioneer in clinical and translational research. It is very well deserved that he be named the inaugural Larry J. Shapiro Distinguished Professor in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Powderly
on this new distinguished professorship.