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His wife Nadia and their family did not know what to do with the plans they'd made for the week.

NADIA ZAKI: It's been like we're living in a dream. Dr. Sherif was also invited to present  a podcast on Decoding Long COVID: A Journey Into Its Pathogenesis | Exploring the Biological Underpinnings of a Modern Health Challenge. Another notable podcast highlights "Addressing Health Disparities Through Medical Education at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions", the largest association that represents the CME/CPD industry - Projects In Knowledge Powered by Kaplan.

zaki sherif biography of barack

Dr. Sherif is married with four children.

Sherif Zaki, CDC disease detective, is dead at age 65

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

Now we remember a remarkable man and a remarkable scientist. He was 65 years old.

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Zaki Sherif is a Tenured Full Professor at Howard University College of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine through the Department of Oncology. He has been featured on video conferencing platforms, podcasts, and radio shows for his expertise on cancer and COVID-19 on numerous occasions and received accolades, plaques, and certificates of appreciation.

Dr. Sherif has been involved in university-level teaching since 2002. She says his team helped build an understanding of why the coronavirus causes death and the risks it carries for pregnant patients.

SHAPIRO: But beyond Zaki's tireless work, Damon says he was also gracious and collaborative - someone who took time to teach others.

DAMON: He loved teaching.

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Dr. Sherif has brought millions in total federal and private grant awards for his research in the fields of cancer biology, molecular genetics and Long COVID studies.

This is not really happening. Dr. Sherif is a medical research scientist specializing in cancer research, translational medicine, and SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis.  Another public airing was in February of 2022 when he was featured on an international podcast (i.e., Surfing NASH) to provide his expertise in hepatocellular carcinoma and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease as a cancer health disparity concern (see Dr.

Zaki Sherif - The NASH Podcast - Surfing the NASH Tsunami Podcast (surfingnash.com). From then on, he became a go-to infectious disease detective, building new ways to identify pathogens.

KSIAZEK: Everywhere from Ebola to the initial SARS to new agents like Lujo and Nipah.

SHAPIRO: One of Zaki's highest-profile cases came right after 9/11.

BRAD PERKINS: There were a series of bioterrorism attacks using a bacteria called Bacillus anthracis.

SHAPIRO: Also known as anthrax - Dr.

Brad Perkins worked with Zaki for two decades.

PERKINS: We had a series of attacks in various parts of the country, starting in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York City and Connecticut.

SHAPIRO: They worked 24-hour days to confirm that those cases in different states were in fact linked.

PERKINS: And he did this same task across a whole range of new, never seen before infectious disease pathogens in a way that I just don't think anybody else in the world would have been capable of.

KELLY: Towards the end of his life, Zaki threw himself at the newest intractable infectious disease - COVID-19.

INGER DAMON: Sherif is one who is able to think about novel ways to begin to answer the unanswered questions.

I had to cancel the turkey.

KELLY: Dr. Sherif Zaki died on November 21 in Atlanta. Dr. Zaki Sherif has numerous scientific publications and book chapters. He has been recognized for his scientific work with national and international awards including induction into the Hall of Fame Society for Science and Technology, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Howard University Provost’s Distinguished Service to the Institution, Georgetown University’s Best Lecturer, the Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora (SSED), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), among many others.

He loved cooking. He also serves on multiple NIH steering/oversight and review committees, American Association for Cancer Research, National Science Foundation, American Cancer Society, and several funding agencies in Canada, Europe, Qatar, and Egypt. Dr. Sherif has mentored and advised over five dozen MDs, PhDs, and Masters students over the last two decades; served as a United Nations visiting scholar/professor at Addis Ababa University Faculty of Medicine; submitted a blueprint proposal to the Ethiopian Government on cancer center design and strategic operation and made trips to Ethiopia on medical missions and peace negotiations.

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He has over 250 presentations at regional, national, and international scientific conferences. And I think he clearly has done that during the COVID outbreak as well.

KELLY: Dr. Inger Damon had been his supervisor at the CDC since 2014.