EPISODE143 - Alan P. Zelicoff, MD The H1N1 Virus: Fact vs. Fiction
Alan Zelicoff is a physician
(board certified in internal medicine 1992, clinical fellowship in
rheumatology, 1983) and physicist (A.B., Princeton, 1975), who has
had a varied career including clinical practice, teaching, and
operations research. In the latter roles, he was Senior Scientist in
the Center for National Security and Arms Control at Sandia National
Laboratories from 1989 - 2003. Dr.
Zelicoff's interests include risk and
hazard analysis in hospital systems and office-based practice, and
in technologies for improving the responsiveness of public health
offices and countering biological weapons terrorism. Dr. Zelicoff
has traveled extensively in countries of the former Soviet Union and
has led joint research projects in epidemiology of infectious
disease, while establishing Internet access at Russian and Kazak
biological laboratories. He is the author of numerous text book
chapters and articles in these subjects, and is a frequent
contributor to Op-Ed pages in the Washington Post and other
newspapers. Dr. Zelicoff's latest book is:
Microbe: Are we Ready for the Next Plague? published by AMACOM
Books.
