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Franco Nuschese Hosts World’s Leading Virus Doctors

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Cafe Milano hosts Global Virus Network Annual Dinner

Cafe Milano hosts Global Virus Network Annual Dinner December 10, 2014

While Washington’s 1%ers enjoyed Cafe Milano’s legendary Branzino and Wagyu beef on the main floor, upstairs in a private room top doctors and health care professionals from around the world celebrated Time Magazine’s Man Of The Year Award that went to their colleagues and friends fighting Ebola.

The Annual Dinner of the Global Virus Network brings together the virologists who work with countries to create and execute protocols to protect and prepare the world’s populations from viruses that quickly spread. As alway, Dr. Robert Gallo and Dr. Billy Hall, GVN co-founders, updated the crowd on progress. Other GVN guests included Dr. Sharon Hrynkow, President of GVN; Tim Moynahan, Chairman of the Board of Directors; and Dr. Erica Saphire, Co-Director of the GVN Center of Excellence at The Scripps Research Institute and one of the leading researchers on Ebola in the United States.

Mathew Evins, a member of the Board of Directors, moderated questions from audience that included Gina Adams, Corporate Vice President Government Affairs, Fedex, and member of the Board of Directors of GVN, the Washington Post’sRoxanne Roberts and FishbowlDC’s new editor Damon Marx.

Matt Dornic Moves To CNN

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Washington favorite, Matt Dornic, will be heading to CNN as Director of Public Relations for CNN Worldwide. Dornic told WHC Insider, “the position at CNN blends perfectly my passion for news media and experience in public relations and emerging technologies. Working with some of the greatest minds in the business – Christa Robinson, KC Estenson and Susan Grant – will be both a challenge and an incredible privilege.”

He spent the last few years at Quinn Gillespie & Associates and as co-editor of MediaBistro’s FishbowlDC.  Politico’s Mike Allen broke the news this morning of the job change and talked to QGA’s Jack Quinn who said “I’ll miss him terribly.” I think the rest of DC would agree.

Matt Dornic with Christine Delargy at the Jefferson for a WHC Insider bash

WHC Weekend Update

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With less than two weeks until the White House Corespondents’ Dinner, the celebrity guest lists are growing.  The National Journal‘s roundup provides an overview of who’s who and who’s sitting where:

  • ABC: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Erin Andrews, Jane Lynch, Bob Iger, Senator Marco Rubio, Eric Holder,   Janet Napolitano, William Daley, Tom Donilon, Admiral Mike Mullen, Jeremy Bernard, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Senator Mark Kirk, Senator Amy Klobuchar
  • Bloomberg: Shaun White, Brooke Burke
  • Fortune: Mira Sorvino, Evan Williams
  • Fox News: Kate Hudson, who is coming with Greta van Susteren
  • The Hill: John Wall
  • Mother Jones: Sean Penn
  • The New Yorker: Jon Hamm, Zach Galifianakis, the Coen brothers
  • Newsweek: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Colin Powell, Tina Brown, Barry Diller, Jon Favreau, Jason Sudeikis, Michael Kors, Diane von Furstenberg, Representative Aaron Schock
  • NPR: Michael Stipe, David Byrne, Scott Z. Burns, Annie Clark, Mike White, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice
  • People: Bristol Palin, Mindy Kaling, Steven Tyler, Chris Colfer
  • Time: Steve Buscemi, Senator Scott Brown,Terrence Winter, Tom Hooper, Tara Subkoff, Jay Roach, Danny Strong
  • USA Today: David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Rick Fox, Eliza Dushku
  • The Washington Post: Donald Trump

The guest lists are not the only thing in motion, this year’s White House Corespondents’ Garden Brunch is changing.  See Matt Dornic’s write up in FishbowlDC for the highlights.

She Said, She Said: Both Sides Now Debuts

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The D.C. political machine has a reputation for being a boys club rather than a gentleman’s establishment; but it takes a woman’s touch to actually discuss it.

Well, women to be more accurate.

Both Sides Now, which had a soft release as a podcast, will have its formal launch this Monday in New York according to The Daily Politics. The weekly radio show comes from The Huffington Post’s Editor-in-Chief Ariana Huffington and power pundit Mary Matalin and is hosted/created by Mark Green according to FishbowlDC.

We’re a fan of the tagline (“We Debate…You Decide”) and the Facebook page too. So what’s the premise? Huffington, Matalin and Green taking on the topics in Washington without having to wake up before 10 a.m. on a Sunday?

Sold.