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]
Gregory A. Poland | |
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| Education | Illinois Wesleyan University (BA) Westminster Theological Seminary (MA) Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (MD) |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, vaccinologist |
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| Institutions | Mayo Clinic |
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Education
editPoland received his BA in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.[4][5] He received his MD from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1981.[5][6] Poland also received an MA in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary.[5]
Research and activism
editPoland is known for researching the immunogenetics of responses to certain vaccines,[3] including smallpox vaccines.[7] He has also written about the negative impacts of the false claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism,[8] and is an outspoken advocate of mandatory influenza vaccination.[2] After developing tinnitus after his COVID vaccination he has called for better safety studies. [9][10]
Department of Defense
editIn 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.[11] 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
editPoland received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 2004 and was named a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2008.[1][12]
References
edit- ^ a b "Gregory Poland Biography". Drgregpoland.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2019. 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.
- ^ a b c Dibble, Adam. "Poland selected to head Defense Health Board" (PDF). The Emerald of Sigma Pi. p. 31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ a b c "Gregory Poland, MD, MATh, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP(London)". nanovaccine.iastate.edu. Iowa State University. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Poland, Gregory A. (2024-08-14). "Better safety studies could restore America's confidence in vaccines". STAT. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Poland, Gregory A.; Kennedy, Richard B. (April 2022). "Vaccine safety in an era of novel vaccines: a proposed research agenda". Nature Reviews Immunology. 22 (4): 203–204. doi:10.1038/s41577-022-00695-3. ISSN 1474-1741. PMC 8864453. PMID 35197577.
- ^ "Defense Health Board - Federal Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense | Health.mil". Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Dr Gregory A. Poland". Terrapinn. 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2024.