Make plans to hear Dr. Carlos del Rio give a talk titled “The Substance use Epidemic: Opportunities and challenges for Infectious Diseases clinicians and researchers” . As described below, Dr. del Rio has had a very remarkable career. We are honored to have him visit UAB and present remarks at ID Grand Rounds. All are invited to attend. This visit is co-sponsored by the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Division and the UAB Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).

Dr. del Rio is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of PEPFAR, member of UNAIDS Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee and immediate past president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Among Dr. del Rios many honors are the James H. Nakano Citation received in 2001 and awarded by the CDC for an outstanding scientific paper published in 2000; the Emory University Marion V. Creekmore Achievement Award for Internationalization; the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory University, the highest award conferred by Emory to a faculty or staff member who has significantly enriched the intellectual and civic life of the Emory community; the Ohtli Award from the Government of Mexico for work that benefits communities of Mexican origin living in the U.S.; the APHA Award for Excellence in Public Health; and the MAP International Bill Foege Global Health Award. He was selected by the Atlanta Magazine as one of the 55 most influential foreign-born Atlantans in 2007. In 2013 Dr. del Rio was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and, in 2020, he was elected as the International Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2022 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2021, Dr. del Rio was recognized by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a Great Immigrant, Great American and by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms with the Phoenix Award, the City of Atlanta’s highest honor, for his medical guidance and support during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, he was named among Georgia Trend's 500 Most Influential Leaders in Healthcare for his decades of patient care, infectious disease and global health research, medical education, and healthcare administration.