From Wales to Pneumocystis and AIDS
Centuries of Serendipity
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Walter T. Hughes, Jr., M.D. is a physician-scientist of Welsh descent born on a
farm in southeast Tennessee in 1930. Educated in public schools through medical
school and residency he began his career at the Walter Reed Army Biological
Warfare Research Unit in 1956 at Ft. Detrick, MD. Aside from two years of
private practice in Pediatrics, his entire career was spent in academic
medicine. From Wales to Pneumocystis and AIDS tells how he achieved positions of
Eudowood Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics, University
of Louisville School of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics, University of
Tennessee College of Medicine; Arthur Ashe Chair for Pediatric Aids Research;
Chairman, Department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital; and, the publication of more than 500 scientific articles. Novels
written after retirement include The Yellow Martyrs (2000), The Last Leaf
(2003), Ghosts of Misery Island (2006) and Suffer the Little Children (2011). 
