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 and his MD from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.[4]
Research and activism
Poland is known for researching the immunogenetics of responses to certain vaccines,[3] including smallpox vaccines.[5] He has also written about the negative impacts of the false claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism,[6] and is an outspoken advocate of mandatory influenza vaccination.[2]
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
- ^ a b "Gregory Poland Biography". Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ a b Childs, Dan (31 October 2008). "Death Threats, Hate Mail: Autism Debate Turns Ugly". ABC News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Gregory A. Poland". Elsevier. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ "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.
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