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President Bush to Appoint Mark Dybul to Wilson Center Board of Trustees

President George W. Bush will appoint Ambassador Mark R. Dybul of Florida to the Wilson Center's Board of Trustees. Ambassador Dybul also serves as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, leading the implementation of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush announced that he intends to appoint Ambassador Mark R. Dybul of Florida to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He will serve as the designated appointee of the President from within the federal government.

Ambassador Dybul serves as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, leading the implementation of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. From March to August 2006, he served as Acting U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and prior to that he held positions of Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Assistant U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.

Before coming to the Coordinator's Office, Ambassador Dybul served on the Planning Task Force for the Emergency Plan, and was the lead for the Department of Health and Human Services for President Bush's International Prevention of Mother and Child HIV Initiative.

Ambassador Joseph B. Gildenhorn, chairman of the Wilson Center Board of Trustees, welcomed Dybul's appointment. "We are delighted to welcome a board member with such extensive experience and dedication in the global heath arena, specifically in fighting the global AIDS pandemic. Ambassador Dybul's vast wealth of knowledge and expertise in the field of medicine will especially benefit the Center's programming initiatives in global health and science and technology. I look forward to working with Ambassador Dybul in the future."

Ambassador Dybul continues to be a Staff Clinician in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health, and maintains an active role as the principal investigator for clinical and basic research for U.S. and international protocols with an emphasis on HIV therapy. He also holds the rank of assistant surgeon general and rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, the uniformed service of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Ambassador Dybul received his A.B. in 1985, as well as his M.D. in 1993 from Georgetown University before completing his residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals in 1995 and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1998.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the living, national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center establishes and maintains a neutral forum for free, open, and informed dialogue. It is a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds and engaged in the study of national and world affairs. Chairman of the Board of Trustees is the Honorable Joseph B. Gildenhorn, who previously served as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland (1989-1993). President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center is Lee Hamilton, who served as a member of Congress for 34 years.