Early life and education Caroline Breese Hall, a native of
Brighton, Monroe County, New York, was born on April 2, 1939. Her father, Burtis Burr Breese, was a pediatrician who was a professor at the
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and the
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society described him as "a pioneer in office-based clinical research and the development of the office throat culture for streptococci". Hall was the fifth president of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. In 1995, Hall became the first winner of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Foundation's Distinguished Service Award. Hall won the Pan American Society of Virology's 1997 Ed Nowakowski Senior Memorial Clinical Virology Award. In 2002, Hall was elected to the
National Academy of Medicine. Hall won the 2006
American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Infectious Diseases Award for Lifetime Contribution in Infectious Diseases Education. Hall won the 2008 Robert M. Chanock Award for Lifetime Achievement. In April 2014, the URMC held a
festschrift symposium in Hall's honor. ==Bibliography==