JUNE
2004
Volume 28 •
No. 6
Original Starsky delivers personal
HIV story at commencement
Paul Michael Glaser, the original Starsky from the 1970s television police series "Starsky and Hutch," was scheduled to be the School of Medicine's Commencement Speaker on June 12.
Dean Philip Pizzo said Glaser was selected because of his longstanding and personal connection to the HIV epidemic.
Glaser's wife was fatally infected as a result of a blood transfusion during childbirth. The newborn daughter subsequently contracted HIV from breastfeeding and died at age 7. The Glaser's 19-year-old son, who was infected by maternal/child transmission in the epidemic's early years, is living with HIV at age 19.
"With the knowledge that both her children were infected with HIV, Elizabeth Glaser, Paul's wife, became one of the most effective advocates for research and clinical care this country has ever known," Pizzo said. The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, later named in honor of its founder, "literally changed the landscape of pediatric research first in the U.S. and now around the world," the dean said.
- Courtesy of Dean Philip Pizzo's Newsletter, http://deansnewsletter.stanford.edu/
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