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]

Gregory A. Poland
Education	Illinois Wesleyan University (BA) Westminster Theological Seminary (MA) Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (MD)
Occupation(s)	Physician, vaccinologist
Medical career
Institutions	Mayo Clinic
Awards	Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service (2004) Master of the American College of Physicians (2008)

Education

Poland 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

Poland 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

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.^[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

Poland 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

1. "Gregory Poland Biography". Drgregpoland.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2019. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
5. "Gregory Poland, MD, MATh, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP(London)". nanovaccine.iastate.edu. Iowa State University. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
6. "Gregory Poland Bio". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
7. Rather, Dan (11 December 2002). "The Most Dangerous Vaccine". CBS News. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
8. 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.
9. Poland, Gregory A. (2024-08-14). "Better safety studies could restore America's confidence in vaccines". STAT. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
10. 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.
11. "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.
12. "Dr Gregory A. Poland". Terrapinn. 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2024.