Dr Jean Willam Pape, MD

Dr Jean William “Bill” Pape was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He studied medicine in the United States and specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Currently, he is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Center of Global Health at Weill Cornell in the USA and Director of Centres at GHESKIO in Haiti. The focus at GHESKIO is treatment of HIV and tuberculosis. Jean Pape has experienced some of Haiti’s most difficult events, including the 2010 earthquake …

Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor in Clinical Medicine, Medicine , Weill Cornell Medical College 2014 -
Professor of Medicine, Medicine , Weill Cornell Medical College 1995 -
Dr. Jean W. Pape is the Director of GHESKIO, as well as a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell. He is Principal Investigator of the GHESKIO Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) and PEPFAR program. He has received numerous honors, including the Legion of Honor from the President of France for his “contributions to the Haitian people and that of the people of the world” (2002), election to the United States Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Medicine (2004), and the Clinton Global Citizen Award for his visionary leadership in helping Haitians develop their public health system (2010). Dr. Pape was named the Holtzmann Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in 2014.