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

  1. 1 2 "Gregory Poland Biography". Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 Childs, Dan (31 October 2008). "Death Threats, Hate Mail: Autism Debate Turns Ugly". ABC News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Gregory A. Poland". Elsevier. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  4. "Gregory Poland Bio". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  5. Rather, Dan (11 December 2002). "The Most Dangerous Vaccine". CBS News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  6. 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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