2018 Winner: Barry J. Hartman, MD, FIDSA

Barry J. Hartman, MD, FIDSA, a renowned clinician and teacher with a long history of service locally and nationally, is the recipient of IDSA’s 2018 Watanakunakorn Clinician Award. Named to honor the memory of Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, this award is presented by the IDSA Foundation to recognize an IDSA member or fellow for outstanding achievement in the clinical practice of infectious diseases.

Dr. Hartman has earned the respect and admiration of several generations of students, residents, ID fellows, colleagues, and faculty throughout his career. Having transitioned to private practice in the late 1980s, he has remained closely affiliated with Weill Medical College of Cornell in New York City, where he is a clinical professor of medicine. He has delivered annual lectures to medical students on the clinical use of antibiotics, bacteremia, and sepsis for the past 20 years, in addition to presentations at various specialty and subspecialty conferences and ID continuing medical education courses. He has been a member of 30 different medical school committees, including search committees for the school’s dean, the faculty promotions committee, and the general faculty council, which he also led as chair, all while maintaining his own private clinical practice.

Recognized by his institution’s house staff in a survey identifying the most respected attending physicians, Dr. Hartman has repeatedly been named among the Best Doctors in America and in New York. Sought after for his advice on the most challenging clinical cases, he is the ID physician that many colleagues would choose as their own. The author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and 12 book chapters, Dr. Hartman served on the panel that developed IDSA’s 2004 practice guidelines for the management of bacterial meningitis and the 2008 management of encephalitis guidelines. He was a member of the IDSA Finance Committee and served as its chair. Active with the American Board of Internal Medicine, he has been a member of the self-evaluation program in infectious diseases and the subspecialty board. He has also served as a councilor of the Infectious Diseases Society of New York.

After obtaining his medical degree from M.S. Hershey Medical Center/Pennsylvania State University and completing his internship, residency, and ID fellowship training at New York Hospital (now New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weil Cornell Medical Center), Dr. Hartman joined the faculty at Cornell University Medical College. He also trained in the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Tomasz at Rockefeller University, where he conducted research on mechanisms of S. aureus resistance.

Truly a “doctor’s doctor,” Dr. Hartman is an esteemed clinician with an impressive record of dedicated service to patients, students, colleagues, and the ID specialty throughout his career. The Society is proud to recognize him with the 2018 Watanakunakorn Award.

Past Watanakunakorn Clinician Award Winners

2017	Douglas R. Osmon, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2016	Wilbert H. Mason, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2015	James Horton, MD, FIDSA
2014	Eliot W. Godofsky, MD
2013	Johan S. Bakken, MD, PhD and Thomas M. File, Jr., MD, MSc
2012	David N. Gilbert, MD, FIDSA
2011	Stan Deresinski, MD, FIDSA
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 and Richard N. Olans, MD
2002	William A. Agger, MD
2001	H. Gunner Deery, MD and Peter T. Frame, MD
2000	Martin C. McHenry, MD, MS and Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, MD
1999	Gonzalo Ballon-Landa, MD and Thomas G. Slama, MD
1998	David S. McKinsey, MD and Daniel J. Sexton, MD
1997	Ramon E. Moncada, MD
1996	George Atkinson, MD Pankey, MD and Alan D. Tice, MD
1995	Ellie J.C. Goldstein, MD
1994	George Thornton, MD
1993	Edward Septimus, MD