Anne Fanning

'''Anne Fanning''' (born 1939) is a Canadian physician and expert in tuberculosis.<ref name=cbc>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tb-expert-dr-anne-fanning-receiving-top-medical-award-1.2735792 TB expert Dr. Anne Fanning receiving top medical award], ''CBC News'', 13 August 2014</ref> Born in 1939 in London, Ontario, Fanning studied medicine at the University of Western Ontario and undertook postgraduate training at the University of Alberta.<ref name=ab>[https://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/community-service/anne-fanning-binder/index.html Anne Fanning Binder CM, MD, FRCPC], The Alberta Order of Excellelnce</ref> Fanning worked as a researcher and professor at the University of Alberta beginning in 1973, and as a clinical physician at the University of Alberta Hospital and the Aberhart Hospital.<ref name=views>[https://albertaviews.ca/doctor-intimidation/ Doctor Intimidation] by Larry Johnsrude, ''Alberta Views'', 1 November 2012</ref><ref name=ab/> She designed a tuberculosis clinic for Edmonton and headed the tuberculosis program of the province of Alberta from 1987 to 1996.<ref name=stop/> She was "forced out of her job" because of her criticisms of planned program cuts.<ref name=cbc/><ref name=views/> She then moved to Vienna to work with the World Health Organization as the WHO Medical Officer for Global TB Education from 1998 to 1999.<ref name=views/><ref name=stop/> From 2000 to 2003 she served as president of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.<ref name=stop/> She developed a global health program for the University of Alberta before retiring in 2005.<ref name=ab/>

She founded and is on the Executive Committee of Stop TB Canada. She is also on the board of Keiskamma Canada and the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation.<ref name=stop>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160124093325/http://stoptbcanada.org/a-member-of-the-stop-tb-partnership/about-us/ About Us]}}, Stop TB Canada</ref> She and her husband Melvyn Binder have two daughters.<ref name=ab/>

Fanning is a professor emerita of the University of Alberta.<ref>[https://openparliament.ca/committees/health/40-3/10/dr-anne-fanning-1/only/ Dr. Anne Fanning (Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta) at the Health Committee], ''openparliament.ca'', 20 April 2010</ref> She became a member of the Order of Canada in 2007 and received the Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012.<ref name=stop/> She was the 2014 recipient of the Frederic Newton Gisborne Starr Award from the Canadian Medical Association.<ref name=cbc/> Other awards include the Japanese Anti-Tuberculosis Association TB Global Award; the Alberta Centennial Medal; a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Society for International Health; the Alberta Order of Excellence; the May Cohen Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; and being named as "One of Alberta's Physicians of the Century" by the Alberta Medical Association.<ref>[http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=13465 Do It Right the First Time, Every Time!] by Bobby Ramakant, ''The Seoul Times''</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fanning, Anne}} Category:Living people Category:Canadian pulmonologists Category:Women pulmonologists Category:1939 births Category:People from London, Ontario Category:University of Western Ontario alumni

==Further reading== *{{cite journal |last1=Zdeb |first1=Chris |title=A good mentor can 'catch you if you drop' |journal=Edmonton Journal |date=27 August 2007 |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/edmonton-journal/20070827/282312495682874}}