“Joseph McDade; founding editor of Emerging Infectious Diseases; continues to serve the journal in an advisory capacity. Author of ˜100 scientific articles; Dr. McDade is best known for isolating and identifying Legionella pneumophila; the bacterium that causes ‘Legionnaires' disease’; for identifying the cause of ‘ehrlichiosis’; an emerging tickborne illness; and for directing research on Rocky Mountain spotted fever; Q fever; and typhus. Dr. McDade has also served as adjunct professor at Emory University's School of Public Health; Atlanta; Georgia; and since his retirement from CDC in 2001; as adjunct professor at Shorter and Floyd Colleges in Rome; Georgia.”