“My Hero Award”, AID for AIDS, New York, NY

University of Maryland, Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Preliminary Speaker – ISHEID 2010 (16th Conference)

Appointed to President Bush’s US President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) as
Chairman of International Subcommittee

Keynote Speaker, Race Against Time – Global Summit on AIDS and the Church, Saddleback Church, California

Keynote Speaker, Disturbing Voices – Global Summit on AIDS and the Church, Saddleback
Church, California

University of Notre Dame – HIV/AIDS Africa and Antiretroviral Therapy; Solidarity with Africa-The Question of Health Care

White Coat Ceremony Speaker, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Keynote Speaker, Prescription of Hope Conference – HIV/AIDS – The Plague of our Times; International Crisis or Christian Opportunity for Global Health

Plenary Speaker, Catholic Medical Association USA – AIDS: International Crisis-A Gift of Mercy

Chairman, San Marino Conference, 1997
Chronic Viral Diseases Associated with Immunology, Cancer, and Neurological Disorders

Highest Achievement in Clinical Virology Award awarded by Orthro Diagnostic Systems
Incorporated for pioneering efforts in development of innovative immunotherapeutic strategies for treatment of chronic viral disease

Lifetime Science Award received for outstanding research in the area of retroviruses which has significantly increased our scientific understanding of HIV and work in advancing progress towards the development of an AIDS vaccine (awarded by Institute for Advanced Studies in Immunology and Aging)

Invited Contributor, Textbook of AIDS Medicine

Invited member of Vatican Delegation 1st World Day for the Sick

Personal Meeting with Pope John Paul II

Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science from New York Medical College for scientific contributions and medical/public health leadership in the HIV epidemic

Invited editorial, New England Journal of Medicine

Recipient of the 1988 Thomas Parran Award (named in honor of the
former Surgeon General) awarded for contributions to the scientific understanding of HIV and leadership in public health policy development related to HIV infection

Meritorious Service Medal from the Surgeon General for work and leadership in advancing therapeutic and public health strategies to challenge the HIV epidemic

Sustaining membership award for outstanding contribution to medical research, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States

Army Achievement Award for work in field of Viral Hepatitis

Consultative Visit – Moscow Government

Co-Principal Investigator, NIH funded Clinical Trials Network Grant, University of Maryland

Member, Fogarty International Center Advisory Board, NIH, appointed by Secretary Tommy Thompson

Member, Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council, National Institutes of Health, appointed by Secretary Tommy Thompson

Member, Board of Directors of Mission of Mercy, a medical outreach care program for the poor and working poor

Member, Citizens Advisory Committee for Family Life and Human Development. Montgomery County, MD. Board of Education Archdiocese of Washington Representative

Member, Board of Directors of Mission of Mercy, a medical outreach care program for the poor and working poor

Chairman, HIV Immunology and Immunotherapy Planning

Medical Advisor, Americans for a Sound AIDS Policy

Member, Data Safety Oversight Committee Veterans Administration Therapeutic Anti-HIV Program

Ad Hoc Review Committee NCI HIV Vaccine RFP