Hooked on ID with Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc, FASTMH, FAAP
I actually knew I wanted to study infectious diseases even before embarking on a career in medicine.
As a 10- or 11-year-old child, I set up a laboratory in the basement of our home in West Harford, Connecticut, and with books from the library, I was off to it!
It helped reading Microbe Hunters at that time, but as I sometimes tell my students, postdocs, fellows and residents — I’m not the classic role model because I’ve wanted to do this from the beginning.
Ultimately, I went to the MD/PhD program at Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medical College because of their strengths in infectious disease and tropical medicine.
— Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc, FASTMH, FAAP
Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine
Baylor University College of Medicine
Co-director, Texas Children Hospital Center for Vaccine Development