R. C. Moellering Jr., MD
ROBERT C. MOELLERING, JR., M.D.
Dr. Robert
Moellering is the Shields Warren-Mallinckrodt Professor of Medical Research at Harvard Medical School. He served as Physician-in-Chief
at the New England Deaconess Hospital from 1981 until 1996. He subsequently served as the Herrman L. Blumgart Professor of Medicine
at Harvard Medical School, and Physician-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(BIDMC) in Boston through 2005. During that period he was also President and CEO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC. Trained
as an infectious diseases specialist, Dr. Moellering has been actively involved in laboratory research for the past 35 years carrying
out numerous studies of the mechanism of action and mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobial agents and his work is reported in over
400 publications in scientific journals. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Master of the American College
of Physicians, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and has been elected to membership in the American Society for
Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Antimicrobial Agents
and Chemotherapy, Consulting Editor of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, and Associate Editor of the Journal
of Infection and Public Health. Dr. Moellering has received many prestigious awards, including an honorary Doctor of Science degree
from Valparaiso University, the Garrod Medal from the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the Feldman Award and the Maxwell
Finland Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Hoechst-Roussel Award from the American Academy for Microbiology,
and in 2006 the Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Most recently,
he is the 2008 recipient of the Alexander Fleming Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Robert C. Moellering, Jr., M.D. Shields Warren-Mallinckrodt Professor of Medical Research Harvard Medical School Department
of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts USA |