The honorees are:
• Peter Piot, MD, PhD, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom, who will receive the 2017 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award
• Myron M. Levine, MD, of Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine, who will receive the 2017 Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement
• Thomas M. File Jr., MD, of Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health, who will receive the 2017 John P. Utz Leadership Award
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“We are pleased to honor and celebrate three exceptional infectious disease heroes this year,” said Marla Dalton, executive director and CEO of NFID. “Drs. Piot, Levine and File have saved countless lives through their collective work on serious infectious diseases including AIDS, Ebola, cholera, dysentery and community-acquired respiratory infections.”
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