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WHEREAS, Monto Ho was born in Yiyang, Hunan, China in 1927; and
WHEREAS, in 1937, his father was appointed to the Chinese consulate in Vienna, Austria, where he moved with his family; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Ho spent the next eight years attending schools around the globe, until he entered Beijing's prestigious Tsing Hua University in 1945; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Ho transferred to Harvard College where he graduated with high honors; and
WHEREAS, he returned to Harvard in 1950, where he received his M.D. four years later; and
WHEREAS, afterwards Dr. Ho became a research fellow in infectious diseases under Edward H. Kass and Maxwell Finland, founders of the American Society for Infectious Diseases; and
WHEREAS, he then studied for two years in the laboratory of John F. Enders, Nobel Laureate, where he specialized in virology; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Ho then settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1959 as assistant professor at the Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, since 1972 Dr. Ho was the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of Clinical Microbiology in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology in the School of Medicine, as well as appointed chairman of the Department of Microbiology in 1974; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Ho has been a pioneering investigator of interferons, making a major contribution to the field of Medicine and improving the lives of generations to come; and
WHEREAS, in 2006, Monto and his wife Carol endowed the "Monto and Carol Ho Chair in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology" for $2 million in the University of Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, on October 26, 2006 the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, will honor the work of Monto Ho, M.D., at the University of Pittsburgh with a symposium entitled "Decades of Discovery".
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh commends Dr. Monto Ho for all his great work and thanks him for all of the contributions he has made to Pittsburgh.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby declares Tuesday, October 24, 2006 "Dr. Monto Ho Day" in the City of Pittsburgh.