“Dr. Mary Guinan received the Alma Dea Morani Award from The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine, in conjunction with the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, on September 28, 2006. Recognized for her heroic efforts with disease control and prevention for three decades at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Dr. Guinan, Founding Dean of the New School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, had taken part in the historic effort to eliminate smallpox in Uttar Pradesh, India and is often credited with being one of the first doctors to identify AIDS as an epidemic. Dr. Guinan is board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Preventive Medicine in Public Health and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas and an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
During her Infectious Disease fellowship training, she became interested in herpes viruses in women. She was one of the first women at that time doing research in sexually transmitted diseases and decided to concentrate her research on women. In her 22 years with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Dr. Guinan became a leading expert on the Herpes virus and studied the first cases of AIDS while serving on the original AIDS Task Force. She also was the first woman to serve as chief scientific advisor to the Director of the CDC.” Source Quoted: http://www.fhwim.org/what_newsletters.html
