2022 Featured Lecturer
Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD, FIDSA, serves as the dean of Chicago Medical School and vice president for medical affairs at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. Trained as a pediatric infectious diseases specialist, Dr. Chatterjee has practiced in her field for more than 20 years; conducted more than 120 clinical trials; and published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, 26 invited review articles, 24 book chapters and one book. She serves as a reviewer for 35 journals. In the past 20 years, Dr. Chatterjee has delivered more than 700 lectures and 200 scientific presentations at various international, national, regional and local venues. She has served as the course director for more than 30 CME programs, given more than 95 media interviews and published 30 newspaper articles.
Dr. Chatterjee has been elected/selected to serve on several national advisory boards and committees including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Group on Women in Medicine and Science, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Board of Directors and the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-Board of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Mentorship and sponsorship of faculty and learners has been a hallmark of Dr. Chatterjee’s entire 30-year career in academic medicine. Through her tireless efforts at guiding, promoting and encouraging faculty and learners, she has impacted the careers of numerous leaders, faculty members, fellows, residents and students, not only at her home institutions, but nationally and internationally. Another area of concentration for Dr. Chatterjee has been diversity, equity and inclusion, particularly gender diversity and intersectionality. She has focused some of her scholarly effort on collaborative projects related to faculty and leadership development as well as DEI initiatives, participating in presentations at national conferences and publishing her work in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals.
Past Edward Kass Lecturers
| 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 |