Bennett Lorber

Bennett Lorber is an American medical educator. In 2018 he became professor emeritus at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. An authority on the listeriosis bacterial infection in humans, he has been recognized for the quality of his clinical teaching and has received distinguished teacher awards from the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American College of Physicians (2013).

Education Lorber attended Swarthmore College where he majored in zoology and art history and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964. Lorber's article asking "are all diseases infectious?" has been frequently cited and continues to be referenced more than 20 years after its publication. The article appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine in November 1996. In 2003, an article of Lorber's was described as a classic in a profile of him appearing in Temple Medicine. Lorber has contributed to every edition of Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. He was president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia between 2010 and 2012 and of the Anaerobe Society of the Americas between 2008 and 2010. He was an attending staff physician at Temple University Hospital and Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases. On two occasions the graduating class at Temple dedicated its yearbook to him (1975, 1988). He is the only two-time recipient of the Russell and Pearl Moses award for excellence in clinical teaching at Temple (1985, 1990).

In 2004, Lorber was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Educators in Medicine and in 2005 the alumni association of the Temple University School of Medicine presented him with its Honored Professor Award. In 2013 the American College of Physicians presented Lorber with its distinguished teaching award. In 2018 the Association of American Medical Colleges gave him its Distinguished Teacher Award. In 2003 he received the Clinical Practice Award of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians. In 2016 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anaerobe Society of the Americas at their biennial meeting held in Nashville.

Lorber was given an honorary doctorate of science by Swarthmore College in 1996.