David A. Stevens

David A. Stevens, MD, is a Professor (Emeritus) of Medicine (tenured, 1978), at Stanford University Medical School. He is President of the California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, and Principal Investigator of its Infectious Disease Research Laboratory.

He graduated from Cornell University and the Univ. of Rochester Medical School and did his internship and residencies at the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Univ. of California, Los Angeles. He has served at the National Cancer Institute, and National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and was a Fellow in Infectious Diseases at Stanford.

He is the author of over 700 full articles, editorials, and book chapters (largely in mycology) and an approximately equal number of abstracts, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals. He was the 1999 recipient of the Rhoda Benham Medal from the Medical Mycology Society of the Americas, the 2006 recipient in Paris of the Lucille Georg Medal from the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology, and the 2006 recipient of the Charles E. Smith Memorial Award from the Coccidioidomycosis Study Group.