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
  1. "Gregory Poland Biography". Drgregpoland.com. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  2. Childs, Dan (31 October 2008). "Death Threats, Hate Mail: Autism Debate Turns Ugly". ABC News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  3. "Gregory A. Poland". Elsevier. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  4. Dibble, Adam. "Poland selected to head Defense Health Board" (PDF). The Emerald of Sigma Pi. p. 31. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  5. "Gregory Poland Bio". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  6. Rather, Dan (11 December 2002). "The Most Dangerous Vaccine". CBS News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  7. 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.
  8. "Defense Health Board - Federal Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense | Health.mil". Archived from the original on 2016-08-23. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
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