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Anthony Stephen Fauci MD

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 physician-scientist and immunologist

 serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

and the 

Chief Medical Advisor to the President.

As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 

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Fauci has served the American public health sector

in various capacities for more than fifty years 

and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan. 

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He has been director of the NIAID since 1984

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served under President Donald Trump as one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Fauci's advice was frequently contradicted by Trump,

and Trump's supporters alleged that Fauci was trying to politically undermine Trump's run for reelection.

After Joe Biden took office, Fauci began serving as one of the lead members

of the White House COVID-19 Response Team and as Biden's chief medical advisor.

 

Anthony Fauci  born on December 24, 1940,

 Brooklyn, New York City, 

to Eugenia Lillian (née Abys; 1909–1965)

+ Stephen A. Fauci (1910–2008).

 His father was a Columbia University-educated pharmacist 

who owned his pharmacy.

 Fauci's mother and sister worked the pharmacy's register,

and Fauci delivered prescriptions.

 Fauci's mother also worked at a dry cleaner

. The pharmacy was located in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn,

directly beneath the family apartment, previously in the 

Bensonhurst 

neighborhood.

 

Fauci's grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy

in the late 19th century. His paternal grandparents,

Antonino Fauci and Calogera Guardino,

were from Sciacca, and his maternal grandparents were from Naples.

His maternal grandmother Raffaella Trematerra was a seamstress,

and his maternal grandfather Giovanni Abys

was a Swiss-born artist noted for his landscape and portrait painting,

magazine illustrations in Italy, as well as graphic design for commercial labels,

including olive oil cans. Fauci grew up Catholic

 

Fauci attended Regis High School, 

a private Jesuit school in Manhattan's Upper East Side, 

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After graduating in 1958,

Fauci attended the College of the Holy Cross, 

Cornell University's Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medicine), 

1966 At Cornell, he focused on adult internal medicine, mainly infectious diseases

and the immune system. Fauci then did an internship and residency in internal medicine 

at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center

(now Weill Cornell Medical Center).