Timeline RecentAbout The PresidentTimelineCurrently selectedPublicationsSpeeches, Messages, InterviewsPresident Fadlo Khuri Honored as a Physician, Leader, and HumanistFestschrift and Fellowship Donors Page Content1963Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Soumaya E. (Née Khuri-Makdisi) and Raja N. Khuri.1981Graduates from the International College in Beirut, Lebanon.1981-82Enrolls at AUB as an undergraduate biology student.1985Earns BS degree at Yale University.Enrolls at Columbia University.Meets Lamya Raja Tannous.1985-89Recipient of the R.G. Haddad Scholarship Award at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.1988-89Recipient of the Columbia University, Honors in Cancer Research.1989Earns MD degree at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.1989-92Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, Boston City Hospital, Boston University, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.1991Marries Lamya Raja Tannous.1992-95Fellow in Hematology and Medical Oncology, New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.1994Daughter Layla Khuri is born.1995Instructor, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.Son Raja Khuri is born.1996-99Recipient of the American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Career Development Award.Recipient of the MD Anderson Faculty Excellence Award.1996-2001Assistant Professor of Thoracic and Head and Neck Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center.1998Daughter Rayya Khuri is born.2001-02Associate Professor with tenure, UT MD Anderson cancer Center.2002-03Member of the Inaugural Class, Woodruff Leadership Academy, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.2002-07Appointed Blomeyer Professor of Hematology and Oncology, Emory University.2002-23Professor with tenure, Emory University, Winship Cancer Institute Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and School of Medicine.2003-15Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar.2003-16Best Doctors in America.2005Elected a member of the Naef K. Basile Foundation Board of Trustees.2005-15Recognized at Emory University, Top 100 Funded Scientists.2006Recipient of the Nagi Sahyoun Award of the Middle East Medical Assembly for “research that has changed the way we think about and treat lung and head and neck cancer".2007-presentElected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation.2008Visiting Professor, Fourth Military Medical University of Xi'An, Xi'An China.Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Center, Annual Bruell Family Lecturer.2008-15Listed in Castle Connolly America's Top Doctors.2009Member, Presidential Advisory Committee, Westminster, School, Atlanta, Georgia.Fellow, American College of Physicians.Elected Member, Atlanta International School Board of Trustees.Instrumental in obtaining the National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation for the Winship Cancer Institute.2010Waun Ki Hong Visiting Professorship, University of Texas MD Anderson.Honorary Professor, Central South University, Xiangya Medical School, China.2010-15Chair, AUB Medical School International Advisory Committee.2011-21Editor-in-chief of Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society.2012Keynote address, Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University.Keynote address, White Coat Ceremony, Class of 2016, Emory University School of Medicine.2013Recipient, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Memorial Award by the American Association for Cancer Research, in recognition of outstanding contributions and accomplishments as an investigator in lung and aerodigestive medical oncology (April).Recipient of the Arab American High Achievers (AAHA) Award, Alif Institute.2014Elected, AUB Board of Trustees by AUB's global alumni body.2015Recipient of the James R. Eckman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University.Elected, Member of the Academy of Sciences for Lebanon (officially Académie des Sciences du Liban or ASL), Division 2, Section “Health" (February).Appointed the 16th president of the American University of Beirut (March).Recipient of TAKREEM's Scientific and Technological Achievement Award.2016Elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (American University of Beirut Chapter).2017Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB celebrates its 150th anniversary.Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB launches BOLDLY AUB: The Campaign to Lead, Innovate, and Serve, with a target of $650 million for university priorities.Receives the American Lebanese Medical Association - Lifetime Achievement Award (February).2018Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB implements a tobacco-free policy at AUB.Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB establishes an independent nursing school: the Rafic Hariri School of Nursing.Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB sets up more than a dozen schools for Syrian refugees and secures electronic medical records for 15,000 refugees.Recipient of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)'s Joseph W. Cullen Award.Recipient of the World Health Organization's World No Tobacco Day Award and the WHO Director-General's Special Recognition Award for his contribution in the fight against tobacco use and rendering the university's campus tobacco free (October).Recipient of the Ben Qurrah Award presented by the National Arab American Medical Association (NAAMA) Houston Chapter.Recipient of the Middle East Institute's Issam M. Fares Award for Excellence on behalf of the American University of Beirut.Delivers the 12th Paul Calabresi, MD Memorial Lecture, Yale University Cancer Center Grand Rounds (November).2019Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB relaunches the Worldwide Alumni Association of the American University of Beirut (WAAAUB), the university's global alumni association.Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB adopts VITAL 2030, a new campus master plan and strategic plan for the university.2020Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB launches AUB Online.2021Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB announces the establishment of the University Hospitals Consortium (the AUB Medical Center, St. Joseph University's Hôtel-Dieu de France, the St. George Hospital University Medical Center, and the Lebanese American University's Medical Center-Rizk Hospital) and its agreement with the Ministry of Public Health to administer 320,000 shots (to vaccinate 160,000 individuals) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB vaccinates 99 percent of AUB students, faculty, and staff.2022Elected Vice President, Lebanese Academy of Sciences.Honored for his service as editor-in-chief of Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society, at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting.2023Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB acquires the Keserwan Medical Center, AUB's first community hospital, in Jounieh, Lebanon. Co-authors “Climate Change and Cancer Care: A Policy Statement From ASCO," published in JCO Oncology Practice (November).Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB celebrates the inaugural opening ceremony of its new twin campus, the American University of Beirut – Mediterraneo (AUB Mediterraneo), in Pafos, Cyprus (September 6).Honored by the Pioneers in Dentistry Committee at the AUB Medical Center.Honored by the Aley Club, Lebanon.2024Official closure of BOLDLY AUB: The Campaign to Lead, Innovate, and Serve, which raises more than $805 million for university priorities.2025Elected on the first ballot to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the most prestigious and the oldest learned society in North America.Under President Khuri's leadership, AUB announces the establishment of a school of computing and data sciences, which will become the university's 8th faculty.