Anthony Fauci

Anthony Fauci

Anthony Stephen Fauci ( FOW-chee; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci has served the American public health sector in various capacities for more than fifty years and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan. He has been director of the NIAID since 1984 and has made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiency diseases, both as a research scientist and as the head of the NIAID. From 1983 to 2002, Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR.During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served under President Donald Trump as one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Fauci has received more than 13,307,132 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Anthony Fauci is the 169th most popular physician (up from 200th in 2019), the 1,364th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,655th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Physician.