A eulogy for Dr Francisco Miguel Marty Forero

Sophia Koo; Tyler D Bold; Matthew Pellan Cheng; Dimitrios Farmakiotis; Joshua A Hill; Bettina Knoll; Yiannis Koullias; Alyssa R Letourneau; Jessica Little; Elizabeth A Moulton; Zoe Freeman Weiss; Sarah P Hammond

doi:10.1111/tid.13645

A eulogy for Dr Francisco Miguel Marty Forero

Transpl Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;23(4):e13645. doi: 10.1111/tid.13645. Epub 2021 Jun 13.

Authors

Sophia Koo^{1

2

3}, Tyler D Bold⁴, Matthew Pellan Cheng⁵, Dimitrios Farmakiotis⁶, Joshua A Hill^{7

8}, Bettina Knoll⁹, Yiannis Koullias¹⁰, Alyssa R Letourneau^{3

11}, Jessica Little^{1

2

3

11}, Elizabeth A Moulton¹², Zoe Freeman Weiss^{1

2

3

11}, Sarah P Hammond^{2

3

11}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
² Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
⁷ Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁸ Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA.
¹⁰ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, USA.
¹¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
¹² Division of Infectious Diseases, Texas Children's Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

PMID: 34022099
DOI: 10.1111/tid.13645

Abstract

As some of those who were lucky enough to have been mentored by Dr Francisco Marty in transplant infectious diseases, we stand with the larger medical community in mourning his untimely death and in commemorating him as a uniquely exceptional and talented physician, investigator, teacher, mentor, friend, artist, and human being.

Keywords: CMV; COVID-19; HHV-6; brincidofovir; composite tissue transplantation; humanism in medicine; influenza; invasive aspergillosis; isavuconazole; letermovir; maribavir; mentorship; mucormycosis; transplant infectious diseases; “don't cover discover”.

MeSH terms

Humans
Male
Physicians*