Presidential Medal Recipient

BRUCE F. FARBER, MD

Dr. Bruce Farber graduated from Northwestern University’s Honors Program in Medical Education with a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine. He then did a three-year residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia. After completion of that training, he spent a year doing a fellowship in hospital epidemiology and infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, followed by a clinical fellowship in infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a research fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. He served on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and joined the staff of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset in 1986 and LIJ Medical Center in 1996.

Dr. Farber is professor of medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Jane and Dayton Brown Professor of Medicine, chief of public health and epidemiology, and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases for Northwell Health. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been a consultant to the New York State Department of Health, National Hockey League, Madison Square Garden, and numerous other companies and groups. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers, edited a book on infection control, and written dozens of abstracts and reviews.