Ann Marie Kimball had a worldwide career and reputation before joining our Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island. She graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1972 and received a Medical Degree at the University of Washington (UW) in 1976 with the high honor of being elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She trained in internal medicine at UW and went on to get a Masters in Public Health and Communicable Medicine there in 1981. She is currently a professor emeritus at UW in the department of Epidemiology. She has published 61 articles, 7 of which since 2017. She is famous enough to have a three-page layout in Wikipedia: “Kimball’s research on global trade and emerging infections has earned her a Fulbright New Century Scholars Award and a Guggenheim Scholars Award. She is the author of two books: Risky Trade: Infectious Diseases in an Era of Global Trade, and Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism. She has also done extensive media work with television, radio, and the press. Kimball brought important innovations to international infectious disease surveillance through the founding of the APEC Emerging Infections network advanced electronic disease surveillance and networking in the Asia Pacific.”
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By Frederic Hoffer