Gregory Poland
Gregory A. Poland is an American physician and vaccinologist. He is the Mary Lowell Leary professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota,[1] as well as the director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group.[2] He is also the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine.[3]
Education
Poland received his BA in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.[4] He received his MD from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1981.[5]
Research and activism
Poland is known for researching the immunogenetics of responses to certain vaccines,[3] including smallpox vaccines.[6] He has also written about the negative impacts of the false claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism,[7] and is an outspoken advocate of mandatory influenza vaccination.[2]
Department of Defense
In 2007, Poland was named by President George W. Bush to be president of the Health Defense Board.[4] This board answers to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.[8] Dr. Poland has also been president of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board and worked for over ten years as a consultant to the department.[4]
Honors and awards
Poland received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 2004 and a Mastership in the American College of Physicians in 2008.[1]
References
- "Gregory Poland Biography". Drgregpoland.com. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- Childs, Dan (31 October 2008). "Death Threats, Hate Mail: Autism Debate Turns Ugly". ABC News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- "Gregory A. Poland". Elsevier. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- Dibble, Adam. "Poland selected to head Defense Health Board" (PDF). The Emerald of Sigma Pi. p. 31. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- "Gregory Poland Bio". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- Rather, Dan (11 December 2002). "The Most Dangerous Vaccine". CBS News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- Poland, Gregory A.; Jacobson, Robert M. (13 January 2011). "The Age-Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists". New England Journal of Medicine. 364 (2): 97–99. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1010594. PMID 21226573.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-23. Retrieved 2016-08-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)