MALS Professor, Dr. Daniel Lucey honored with Geisel Career Achievement Award

MALS Professor Dr. Daniel Lucey is the recipient of a 2023 Career Achievement Award by the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, honoring his 40-year career achievements in both clinical work and research in the arena of infectious diseases.

Since 2014, the Geisel Alumni Council's Alumni Recognition Committee has been honoring the achievements of graduates who have distinguished themselves in the fields of medicine, science, and other endeavors. This year, they selected eight esteemed alumni to recognize for the 2023 Alumni Awards Ceremony. Each honoree typifies the Geisel/DMS tradition of excellence in their field of medicine or service to the Dartmouth community.

Daniel R. Lucey D'77, MED'81/'82 has spent 40 years fighting epidemics through patient care, research, education, and public health policy. This work began in 1982 with AIDS in San Francisco, before HIV was discovered, and overseas every year from 2003 to 2020 with SARS, MERS, avian and pandemic flu, Ebola (with Doctors without Borders), Zika, yellow fever, chikungunya, plague (with the World Health Organization), and COVID-19. With this experience, Dr. Lucey proposed an exhibit on viral epidemics in 2014 to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. With over 40 U.S., international, and Smithsonian colleagues, he helped create the content for the exhibit. Titled "Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World," this exhibit had 3.3 million visitors from 2018 to 2022. A traveling version has been translated into 10 languages and shown in 55 countries. He has delivered 525 presentations in the U.S. and internationally in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as 110 interviews in respected news outlets. He has given five global webinars on COVID-19 for the United Nations.

Dr. Lucey teaches several courses in the MALS Program, including MALS 373: "Epidemics: Vortex of Fear and Wisdom."

Dr. Lucey was honored at the 2023 Alumni Awards Ceremony and Reception on Friday, May 19 at the Hanover Inn in Hanover, N.H.

To learn more about the award categories and nominate a deserving alumnus, visit: dartgo.org/awards or, contact Annette Achilles at Geisel.Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu with any questions.