The Department of Medicine is honored to announce that Bettina Fries, MD, FIDSA, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, has been elected to a lifetime fellows honor in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Section of Medical Sciences.
From aaas.org:
"The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 505 scientists, engineers and innovators from around the world and across all disciplines to the 2022 class of AAAS Fellows, one of the most distinguished honors within the scientific community. The newly elected Fellows are being recognized for their scientific and socially notable achievements spanning their careers. This year’s class has moved their fields forward, paving the way for scientific advances that benefit society. They bring diverse and novelty thinking, innovative approaches and passion that will help solve the world’s most complex problems."
Dr. Fries is a fellow of the American Society for Microbiology, a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. She has served as President of the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas, and President of the Infectious Diseases Society of New York, and also served as a member on the AOIC study section. Dr. Fries has been NIH-funded for over twenty years.
Dr Fries’ work spans a wide range of disciplines, but her research chiefly investigates the pathogenesis of chronic fungal infections and the development of monoclonal antibodies against multidrug-resistant bacteria.
She has published over 110 original scientific manuscripts and review articles, along with several book chapters. She is actively engaged in teaching students, residents and fellows, and is a regularly invited meeting organizer and speaker at national and international conferences.
This election is an extremely distinguished honor for Dr. Fries, the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, and for our institutions, Stony Brook University and Stony Brook Medicine. We congratulate Dr. Fries on this very prominent membership, and we wish her continued success with her influential research.
