Butler Senior High School chooses Distinguished Graduate
The Butler Senior High School Class of 2025 announced its choice for the 45th annual Distinguished Graduate Award — Dr. Amesh Adalja, a member of the Butler High School Class of 1993.
Adalja earned a Bachelor of Science in industrial management in 1995 at Carnegie Mellon University. He then pursued a Doctor of Medicine at American University the Caribbean in St. Maarten. In 2007, Adalja completed a combined internal and emergency medicine residency program at Allegheny General Hospital. He completed a fellowship in infectious disease in 2009 and in critical care medicine in 2010 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Adalja is a physician specializing in infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, bioterrorism and emergency medicine. He currently practices as an infectious disease physician at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside; infectious disease and critical care medicine physician at Butler Memorial Hospital; and critical care and infectious disease service line department with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
He also is an adjunct assistant professor with the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh and the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as the associate editor of the journal Health Security.
He is a member in multiple professional and scientific societies, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine; the American, Pennsylvania and Butler County medical associations; and the American College of Physicians and of Emergency Physicians.
Adalja serves on the AIDS Free Pittsburgh advisory board and was the commissioner of the City of Pittsburgh HIV Commission. He also was a member of Allegheny County Medical Reserve Corps and the Pennsylvania College of Emergency Physicians EMS & Terrorism and Disaster Medicine Committee.
