Michael S. Gottlieb

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Michael Stuart Gottlieb (born 1947) is an American

acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a new disease, and for his HIV/AIDS research, HIV/AIDS activism
, and philanthropic efforts associated with HIV/AIDS treatment.

Biography

A native of

UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles.[2]

Identification of AIDS

Beginning in January 1981, Gottlieb, then thirty-three, and several colleagues identified an apparent novel immunologic condition in

Human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV).

Physician Joel Weisman was one of Gottlieb's early collaborators in the identification of AIDS.[2] Weisman's practice treated a large number of gay men, some of whom were among the first identified AIDS patients.[2][3][7]

Gottlieb was

AZT that led to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1987. Gottlieb was the principal investigator on a $10.3 million National Institutes of Health contract for an AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) awarded to UCLA to test potential therapies for HIV. His work in the early years of the epidemic is chronicled in Randy Shilts' book And the Band Played On
.

AIDS research philanthropy

Gottlieb, Elizabeth Taylor, and

American Foundation for AIDS Research.[3]
The organization was established with a $250,000 gift from the estate of Rock Hudson. He served on the boards of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), the Pasadena AIDS Services Center and the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (www.thegaia.org), an NGO working in Malawi, Africa. He is currently Medical Advisor to GAIA and to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.

Clinical practice

Gottlieb is certified with the American Board of Medical Specialties in Internal Medicine and Allergy & Immunology.[8] He is affiliated with two hospitals, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Olympia Medical Center where he is Committee Chairman of Bioethics. He continues on the faculty of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA with the rank of Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine.

In 1989 Gottlieb and two other physicians were sent letters of reprimand by the Medical Board of California for "allegedly over-prescribing controlled substances" to actress Elizabeth Taylor.[2] He attempted to dispute the Letter of Reprimand; his attorney's request was rejected by the board.

In 1997, Gottlieb was inducted into the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni, and in 2007, he was awarded the Charles Force Hutchison and Marjorie Smith Hutchison Medal by the University of Rochester.

In 2019, he joined the APLA Health medical team; he retired in late 2023.

References

  1. ^ Forman, Rob (November 30, 2015). "Michael Gottlieb: the Rutgers alumnus who first identified the deadly disease we now call AIDS". Rutgers Today. Michael S. Gottlieb's older brother was Paul David Gottlieb. "Paul David Gottlieb". Austin American-Statesman. November 2, 2003.
  2. ^ a b c d e "The Emergence of a Deadly Disease", David Brown, Washington Post, June 5, 2001
  3. ^
    PMC 1470620
    .
  4. PMID 16714472.

    Reprinted from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

    of June 5, 1981

  5. PMID 6272109
    .
  6. ^ "HIV/AIDS – the discovery of an unknown, deadly virus", Infectious Disease News, June 1, 2006
  7. ^ "Dr. Joel D. Weisman dies at 66; among the first doctors to detect AIDS", Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2009
  8. ^ a b [1], vitals.com, Comprehensive medical information on 720,000 doctors in the USA

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