The Watanakunakorn Clinician Award
Current Winner
STAN DERESINSKI, MD, FIDSA, is the recipient of IDSA’s 2011 Watanakunakorn Clinician Award. Named to honor the memory of Dr. Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, this award is presented by the IDSA Education and Research Foundation to recognize an IDSA member or fellow for outstanding achievement in the clinical practice of infectious diseases.
Dr. Deresinski received his medical degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1968 and served at the university’s medical center for his internship and first year of residency. After an interval with the U.S. Army, including a period in Viet Nam, he completed a third year of training in Internal Medicine followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in infectious diseases at Stanford University. After two years on the faculty of the University of South Florida School of Medicine, he returned to Palo Alto.
Dr. Deresinski has maintained a private ID practice at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California for 25 years where he is currently president of the professional staff. In addition to maintaining his private practice, Dr. Deresinski initially volunteered and later joined the staff of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, as ID consultant. He similarly taught voluntarily at Stanford for many years, recently joining the staff as clinical educator. He, along with Rob Wehbe, was the first ID clinician to volunteer in the Academic Alliance-IDSA teaching program in Uganda, helping to develop the teaching materials now used to educate health workers in Africa.
His peers describe him as a phenomenal diagnostician who can readily crystallize a puzzling or complex case, thanks to his encyclopedic knowledge of the current and historical ID literature—this expertise in diagnosis has become legendary in his community. Like Dr. Watanakunakorn, Dr. Deresinski has contributed to the knowledge of ID clinical care, having published more than 100 scientific articles, more than 35 books chapters and monographs, and a large number of letters and abstracts. He currently serves as chair of IDSA’s Standards and Practice Guidelines Committee and as section editor and author of the popular “In the Literature” column of Clinical Infectious Diseases, as well as editor of Infectious Disease Alert.
For his accomplishments as an infectious disease clinician, IDSA is pleased to present Dr. Deresinski with the 2011 Watanakunakorn Clinician Award.
Past Winners of the Watanakunakorn Clinician Award
| 2010 |
Marvin J. Tenenbaum, MD, FIDSA |
| 2009 |
Lawrence J. Eron, MD, FIDSA |
| 2008 |
Michael L. Butera, MD |
| 2007 |
Timothy T. Kuberski, MD, FIDSA |
| 2006 |
Barbara H. Wade, MD, FIDSA |
| 2005 |
James S. Tan, MD |
| 2004 |
Donald M. Poretz, MD |
| 2003 |
Steven Jon Berman, MD, FACP
Richard N. Olans, MD |
| 2002 |
William A. Agger, MD |
| 2001 |
H. Gunner Deery, MD
Peter T. Frame, MD |
| 2000 |
Martin C. McHenry, MD, MS
Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, MD |
| 1999 |
Gonzalo Ballon-Landa, MD
Thomas G. Slama, MD |
| 1998 |
David S. McKinsey, MD
Daniel J. Sexton, MD |
| 1997 |
Ramon E. Moncada, MD |
| 1996 |
George Atkinson, MD Pankey, MD
Alan D. Tice, MD |
| 1995 |
Ellie J.C. Goldstein, MD |
| 1994 |
George Thornton, MD |
| 1993 |
Edward Septimus, MD |