Edward H. Kass Lecture
Virginia A. Caine, MD, is director and chief medical officer of the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis, an associate professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and an adjunct associate professor at the university’s School of Public Health. A past president of the American Public Health Association, she specializes in infectious diseases including HIV and its associated opportunistic infections, skin and soft tissue infections, sepsis and more. She is the current president of the National Medical Association, the nation’s oldest and largest organization representing Black physicians and health professionals in the U.S.
Past Edward H. Kass lecturers
2023: Louise C. Ivers, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FASTMH
2022: Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD, FIDSA
2021: Patricia N. Whitley-Williams, MD
2020: Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2019: Henry L. DuPont, MD, FIDSA
2018: Henry Masur, MD, FIDSA
2017: James M. Hughes, MD, FIDSA
2016: John R. Perfect, MD, FIDSA
2015: Karen C. Carroll, MD, FIDSA
2014: Janet Gilsdorf, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS
2013: Peter Hotez, MD, PhD
2012: Elaine L. Larson, PhD, RN, FIDSA
2011: Larry Pickering, MD
2010: Richard Wenzel, MD, MPH
2009: Paul A. Volberding, MD, FIDSA
2008: Arturo Casadevall, MD
2007: David Relman, MD, FIDSA
2006: Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, FIDSA
2005: Constance A. Benson, MD, FIDSA
2004: Lucy Tompkins, MD, PhD, FIDSA
2003: Seymour J. Klebanoff, MD, PhD
2002: Stanley A. Plotkin, MD, FIDSA
2001: John G. Bartlett, MD, FIDSA
2000: Walter Stamm, MD
1999: Sharon Hillier, PhD
1998: Martin Blaser, MD, FIDSA
1997: Judith Wasserheit, MD, FIDSA
1996: Charles S. Bryan, MD
1995: Alfred Evans, MD
1994: Jay Sanford, MD
1993: Floyd Denny, MD
1992: Allan Brandt
1991: Theodore Woodward, MD