John G. Bartlett

John Gill Bartlett (February 12, 1937 – January 19, 2021) was an American physician and medical researcher, specializing in infectious diseases. He is known as a pioneer in HIV/AIDS research and for his work on vancomycin as a treatment for Clostridioides difficile infection.

Biography Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Bartlett graduated from Syracuse's Nottingham High School. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1959 with a bachelor's degree and from Syracuse's State University of New York Upstate Medical University (SUNY Upstate) in 1963 with an M.D. (with a 6th edition published in 2006). In 2019 Oxford University Press published the 17th edition of Bartlett's Medical Management of HIV Infection, (including the 2007 edition — but later editions added one or more co-authors). The Bartlett Pocket Guide to HIV/AIDS Treatment, with 19th edition published in 2019,

Bartlett was instrumental in educating the medical community and the general public about the dangers of bioterrorism. He and Donald Henderson were co-authors, along with numerous colleagues, of papers on possible biological weapons such as "smallpox, plague, tularemia, botulism, anthrax, and hemorrhagic fever viruses." Bartlett was the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in 1999.

In 1999 Bartlett was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2005 he received the Maxwell Finland Award from National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, as well as the Alexander Fleming Award for lifetime achievement from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

In 2006 he was succeeded as director of the Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases by David Lee Thomas, M.D., M.P.H.

He was the author or co-author of "more than 500 original papers, 330 book chapters, and 14 books."

His wife, Jean née Scott, was a registered nurse. She died in October 2020 after 50 years of marriage. Upon his death, Bartlett was survived by three sons and two daughters.

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