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Foundation scientific director receives "outstanding investigator" award from Hungarian Respiratory Society
SOPRON, HUNGARY—Alpha-1 Foundation Scientific Director Adam Wanner, MD, recently received the “Outstanding Investigator Award” from the Hungarian Respiratory Society at its biennial meeting.
Wanner gave the keynote speech at the conference of some 1,500 physicians. His subject was “Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency for Clinicians.”
The Hungarian Respiratory Society is the country’s equivalent of the American Thoracic Society. The group honored Wanner with the outstanding investigator award and a lifetime membership in the society.
Adam Wanner, MD
Wanner is just the second physician to receive the prestigious award. The first was Peter Barnes, MD, the head of airway disease at the National Heart and Lung Institute in London.
Wanner was born in Hungary and grew up in Switzerland. He is Joseph Weintraub Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. A former president of the American Thoracic Society, he has been a clinician and researcher in pulmonary disease and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency for many years.
