Dr. Anthony Fauci Joins Georgetown University as Distinguished Professor

The leading physician during the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, is now a professor at Georgetown University.

Georgetown University on June 26 announced Fauci’s appointment as a distinguished university professor, the university’s highest professional honor, in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the School of Medicine.

Fauci has appointments within the Department of Medicine and the School of Public Policy and wants to overlap and develop collaborations between the two.

Fauci served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 38 years and advised seven U.S. presidents on national and global health issues. He recently served as the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden. Fauci stepped down from that role and his job as NIAID director in December.

Now, he’ll begin a new career at Georgetown on July 1.

“I am delighted to join the Georgetown family, an institution steeped in clinical and academic excellence with an emphasis on the Jesuit tradition of public service,” Fauci said in the press release.

“This is a natural extension of my scientific, clinical and public health career, which was initially grounded from my high school and college days where I was exposed to intellectual rigor, integrity and service-mindedness of Jesuit institutions.”

Fauci and his wife, Christine Grady, were married at Georgetown’s Dahlgren Chapel. Grady graduated with a bachelor’s in nursing and biology and Ph.D. in philosophy from the university.

According to Georgetown, Fauci said joining the university was a no-brainer since he had engaged with students and faculty over the years and wanted to stay involved in medicine and public policy in Washington, D.C.

“When you look around, all of a sudden it became very clear what I wanted to do because Georgetown essentially filled all of those criteria — and then it has so many other aspects of it that you couldn’t make it up,” he said in the press release. “I feel like I’m coming home.”

In a Q&A with Georgetown, Fauci said he expects a lot of excitement and anticipation of the unknown on his first day, just like when he first walked into medical school or the first time he walked into the NIH.

“What is an opportunity that you’re not even thinking about that six months from now is going to pop up and you’re going to be doing something that you didn’t expect? Because my advice to young people — expect the unexpected — goes for me, too,” he said.

“So I’m gonna expect the unexpected here.”