Susan P. Fisher-Hoch

Inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2008, Fisher-Hoch is a British-born infectious-disease specialist recognized for major contributions to the understanding of Legionnaires' disease and Lassa fever. She became professor of epidemiology at The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health.

Fisher-Hoch is the co-author, along with her husband Joseph B. McCormick, of the memoir "Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC." In 1993, she and her husband moved to Karachi, Pakistan, where they worked at the Aga Khan University; during that period, she supervised the clinical microbiology laboratory, which was the largest in Pakistan.