2020 Featured Lecturer
Upinder Singh, M.D., FIDSA is professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University, where she is also professor of microbiology and immunology.
Dr. Singh studies the molecular basis of the pathogenesis of Entamoeba histolytica. Her work is aimed at understanding the virulence determinants that this medically important parasite utilizes in causing invasive colonic and hepatic disease. Using a combination of genetic and genomic approaches, Dr. Singh’s lab is identifying novel mechanisms that the parasite has developed for invading the human host. Her lab also studies the epidemiological trends of amebic infection, with the goal of identifying a parasite molecular signature that correlates with invasive potential.
After earning her medical degree from Ohio State University, Dr. Singh completed her internship, residency, and fellowship training at the University of Virginia Health System and the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Past Joseph E. Smadel Lectureship Winners
| 2019 | Gail Bolan, M.D. |
| 2018 | Monica Farley, M.D., FIDSA |
| 2017 | Ruth Lynfield, M.D., FIDSA |
| 2016 | Patricia Griffin, M.D., FIDSA |
| 2015 | Bruno Moonen* (In Honor of Alan Magil) |
| 2014 | Robert A. Weinstein, M.D., FIDSA, FSHEA |
| 2013 | Myron S. Cohen, M.D., FIDSA |
| 2012 | Diane Havlir, M.D., FIDSA |
| 2011 | William Schaffner, M.D., FIDSA |
| 2010 | Kathleen M. Neuzil, M.D., MPH, FIDSA |
| 2009 | Myron Levine, M.D., FIDSA |
| 2008 | Jane E. Koehler, M.A., M.D. |
| 2007 | Kathryn M. Edwards, M.D., FIDSA |
| 2006 | Allan R. Roland, M.D. |
| 2005 | Lyle Petersen, M.D., MPH |
| 2004 | Eric Ottesen, M.D. |
| 2003 | Didier Raoult, M.D., Ph.D., FIDSA |
| 2002 | Donald A. Henderson, M.D. |
| 2001 | Karl Johnson, M.D. |
| 2000 | Anna Schuchat, M.D., FIDSA |
| 1999 | Lou Miller, M.D. |
| 1998 | Thomas Wellems, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 1997 | Brett Finlay, Ph.D. |
| 1996 | Scott B. Halstead, M.D., FIDSA |
| 1995 | David T. Dennis, M.D., MPH |
| 1994 | Roy Anderson, FRS |
| 1993 | Richard Guerrant, M.D. |
| 1992 | Alfred Sommer, M.D. |
| 1991 | Charles Carpenter, M.D. |
| 1990 | Zanvil Cohn, M.D. |
| 1989 | Thomas Grayston, M.D. |
| 1988 | P. Fredrick Sparling, M.D., FIDSA |
| 1987 | Jack M. Gwaltney, M.D. |
| 1986 | Richard Johnson, M.D. |
| 1985 | Franklin Neva, M.D. |
| 1984 | Maurice Hilleman, Ph.D. |
| 1983 | Garrison Rapmund, M.D. |
| 1982 | Richard Hornick, M.D. |
| 1981 | Baruj Benacerraf, M.D. |
| 1980 | Robert Chanock, M.D. |
| 1979 | Philip Russell, M.D. |
| 1978 | Philip Paterson, M.D. |
| 1977 | Carleton Gajdusek, M.D. |