{"id":62521,"date":"2022-12-09T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=62521"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:23:10","slug":"dr-david-j-weber-keeps-it-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/dr-david-j-weber-keeps-it-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. David J. Weber Keeps it Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>During the pandemic, the infectious diseases expert and\u00a0professor of medicine in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\">Division of Infectious Diseases<\/a> protected campus by distilling data into prevention strategies.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49336\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 265px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/02\/weber-860x574-1-600x400-1-e1642130331816.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/02\/weber-860x574-1-600x400-1-e1642130331816-255x300.jpeg\" alt=\"weber-newsworthy-dec-24-dec-30\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/02\/weber-860x574-1-600x400-1-e1642130331816-255x300.jpeg 255w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/02\/weber-860x574-1-600x400-1-e1642130331816-301x354.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/02\/weber-860x574-1-600x400-1-e1642130331816.jpeg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Weber, MD, MPH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rattlesnake wrangler.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9, but that was, indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/directory\/david-weber\/\">Dr. David J. Weber\u2019s<\/a> first scientific job. As a high school student working in a San Diego lab, he prepared rattlesnakes for research experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Weber has gone on to wrangle much bigger things during his career as an infectious diseases doctor and epidemiologist, teacher, mentor, medical leader and disease prevention evangelist over four decades of epidemics and pandemics.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he is associate chief medical officer and medical director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center and the Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. He is also a professor of epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been a protector of and messenger to the University, North Carolina and colleagues near and far. He is known for reducing the latest data on diseases into useful information that he shares through television and radio interviews, and frequent sessions with health care professionals and researchers. Carolina\u2019s administration has relied on Weber\u2019s expertise to make campus safer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny infectious disease epidemiologist will say it was never a question of if we saw a pandemic, it was only a question of when,\u201d Weber said. That mantra keeps him focused on the science and prevention of new and emerging diseases, especially those that spread from animals to humans, biothreat agents and those that can cause epidemics and pandemics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewell.unc.edu\/2022\/12\/08\/dr-david-j-weber-keeps-it-simple?utm_source=Vital+Signs&amp;utm_campaign=Vital+Signs+12-8-22&amp;utm_medium=email\">Read about Dr. Weber&#8217;s path to medicine, leadership roles and &#8220;Weberisms.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the pandemic, the infectious diseases expert and\u00a0professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases protected campus by distilling data into prevention strategies. Rattlesnake wrangler. It\u2019s not on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9, but that was, indeed, Dr. David J. Weber\u2019s first scientific job. 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