2022 Featured Lecturer
David M. Aronoff, MD, FIDSA, FAAM, is the John B. Hickam Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Aronoff received his bachelor of science degree in microbiology from Indiana University and his medical degree from Tufts University. He completed internship and residency training, including a year as chief resident, in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Aronoff stayed at Vanderbilt to complete a clinical fellowship in infectious diseases and a research fellowship in clinical pharmacology. He then joined the faculty in infectious diseases at the University of Michigan, where he also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in immunology. He returned to Vanderbilt in 2013 as director of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine with secondary faculty appointments in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In 2022, Dr. Aronoff was recruited back to Indiana University to serve as chair of the Department of Medicine. Dr. Aronoff is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and a fellow of both IDSA and the American Academy of Microbiology. His research lab studies reproductive immunology and infections that complicate pregnancy. Dr. Aronoff has published more than 230 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has held national leadership roles in IDSA, the American Society for Microbiology, the Anaerobe Society of the Americas and the American Society for Reproductive Immunology. He has received numerous governmental and nongovernmental research grants, including support from the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the March of Dimes and the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity & Stillbirth.
Past Joseph E. Smadel Lecture Winners
| 2021 | Keith P. Klugman, MD, PhD |
| 2020 | Upinder Singh, MD, FIDSA |
| 2019 | Gail Bolan, MD |
| 2018 | Monica Farley, MD, FIDSA |
| 2017 | Ruth Lynfield, MD, FIDSA |
| 2016 | Patricia Griffin, MD, FIDSA |
| 2015 | Bruno Moonen* (In Honor of Alan Magil) |
| 2014 | Robert A. Weinstein, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA |
| 2013 | Myron S. Cohen, MD, FIDSA |
| 2012 | Diane Havlir, MD, FIDSA |
| 2011 | William Schaffner, MD, FIDSA |
| 2010 | Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA |
| 2009 | Myron Levine, MD, FIDSA |
| 2008 | Jane E. Koehler, MA, MD |
| 2007 | Kathryn M. Edwards, MD, FIDSA |
| 2006 | Allan R. Roland, MD |
| 2005 | Lyle Petersen, MD, MPH |
| 2004 | Eric Ottesen, MD |
| 2003 | Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, FIDSA |
| 2002 | Donald A. Henderson, MD |
| 2001 | Karl Johnson, MD |
| 2000 | Anna Schuchat, MD, FIDSA |
| 1999 | Lou Miller, MD |
| 1998 | Thomas Wellems, MD, PhD |
| 1997 | Brett Finlay, PhD |
| 1996 | Scott B. Halstead, MD, FIDSA |
| 1995 | David T. Dennis, MD, MPH |
| 1994 | Roy Anderson, FRS |
| 1993 | Richard Guerrant, MD |
| 1992 | Alfred Sommer, MD |
| 1991 | Charles Carpenter, MD |
| 1990 | Zanvil Cohn, MD |
| 1989 | Thomas Grayston, MD |
| 1988 | P. Fredrick Sparling, MD, FIDSA |
| 1987 | Jack M. Gwaltney, MD |
| 1986 | Richard Johnson, MD |
| 1985 | Franklin Neva, MD |
| 1984 | Maurice Hilleman, PhD |
| 1983 | Garrison Rapmund, MD |
| 1982 | Richard Hornick, MD |
| 1981 | Baruj Benacerraf, MD |
| 1980 | Robert Chanock, MD |
| 1979 | Philip Russell, MD |
| 1978 | Philip Paterson, MD |
| 1977 | Carleton Gajdusek, MD |