Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the United States’ leading infectious disease expert since 1984. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci, right, briefs President Ronald Reagan, far left, and other members of the President’s Commission on AIDS in 1987. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci, as head of AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health, talks with colleagues in his lab in 1990. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci testifies to a House subcommittee during a 2001 hearing on vaccines for biological weapons defense. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci looks over his notes before testifying before a Senate committee on SARS in 2003. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci, right, speaks with Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt at a pandemic planning conference in Washington in 2005. Centered is Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci speaks to Dr. H. Clifford Lane at the National Institutes of Health in 2007. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents In 2008, US President George W. Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Fauci “for his determined and aggressive efforts to help others live longer and healthier lives.” Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci is seen in the foreground while testifying in the House about an H1N1 vaccine in 2009. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci hugs Nina Pham, a Texas nurse who was infected with Ebola, after she was declared Ebola-free in 2014. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci talks with President Barack Obama as Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell looks on in 2014. It was during a tour of the Center for Vaccine Research at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents In 2016, Fauci listens during a panel discussion on the Zika virus at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci and President Donald Trump examine models of the coronavirus during a tour of the National Institutes of Health in March 2020. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci displays guidelines for slowing the spread of the coronavirus during a press conference at the White House in March 2020. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci wears a mask while President Donald Trump talks about vaccine development in May 2020. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a Major League Baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals in July 2020. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents In December 2020, Fauci receives his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci, alongside President Joe Biden, speaks at the White House about a new variant of Covid-19 in November 2021. Fauci has been the President’s chief medical advisor since January 2021. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Career Under 7 US Presidents Fauci testifies before a House subcommittee during a May 2022 budget hearing.
title: “Fauci Says He Plans To Retire By The End Of Biden S Current Term " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-11” author: “Roger Tison”
“I’ve said it for a long time,” Fauci said of his plans to leave the administration before the end of Biden’s current term, which ends in January 2025. “By the time we get to the end of Biden’s first term, I will very likely (retire),” Fauci said. Fauci told CNN’s “At This Hour” later Monday that while his recent retirement comments were interpreted as an announcement of a retirement plan, he simply meant “that it’s extremely unlikely — in fact, certainly — that I won’t be here beyond January 2025”. Fauci said he feels he has built a good system at NIAID to facilitate a smooth transition at the agency and wants to pursue other career opportunities once he eventually leaves. “Everybody that’s in a position of any influence at my institute, I hand pick. So it’s something that I’ve been working on now for four decades. So we have a good system in place,” Fauci told CNN’s Kate Bolduan. “Obviously, you can’t go on forever. I want to do other things in my career, even though I’m quite advanced in age. I have the energy and passion to continue to want to pursue other aspects of my professional life and I will at some point. I’m not exactly sure when, but I don’t see myself being in this job to the point where I can’t do anything else after that.” At 81, Fauci served more than five decades under seven presidents, advising every US president since Ronald Reagan. In his time as director of NIAID, Fauci helped lead the federal public health response to the HIV/AIDS crisis, Ebola, Zika and anthrax scares. However, he was thrust into the national spotlight at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, emerging as a key voice on public health during the Trump administration. Fauci and then-President Donald Trump publicly disagreed over how to approach the pandemic, what was the right message to the American people and how to balance opening and preventing further transmission. Through it all, Trump insisted he respected Fauci but disagreed with his approach. But at a low point in their relationship, Trump suggested he was considering firing the doctor. Attacks by Trump allies led to heightened security for Fauci. In 2020, Fauci told CNN’s Sanjay Gupta that he had to get security protection after his family received death threats and harassment. Fauci told “At This Hour” on Monday that political pressures did not play a role in his decision to ultimately leave the role. “It has nothing to do with pressures, nothing to do with all the other nonsense you hear about, all the bars and slings and arrows. That has no bearing on me,” he said. Fauci said last November that he expected to leave his role only when the Covid-19 epidemic was “in the rearview mirror”. “I’m the director of the institute that has now been very important in the basic research to lead to the drugs that will now have a significant impact on the treatment of Covid-19. That’s what I’m doing,” Fauci said on CBS ” Sunday Morning.” “Well, I’m going to keep doing this until this Covid-19 outbreak is in the rear-view mirror, no matter what anyone says about me or wants to lie and create crazy politically motivated fabrications.” This story was updated with additional developments Monday. CNN’s Christina Maksouri and Paul LeBlanc contributed to this report.
