Gregory Poland
{{Short description|American physician and vaccinologist}}
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| education = Illinois Wesleyan University (BA)
Westminster Theological Seminary (MA)
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (MD)
| occupation = Physician, vaccinologist
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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,{{cite web| url=http://www.drgregpoland.com/biography.html| title=Gregory Poland Biography| website=Drgregpoland.com| accessdate=30 October 2015| archive-date=7 September 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190907235900/http://www.drgregpoland.com/biography.html| url-status=dead}} as well as the director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group.{{cite web | url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=6150482 | title=Death Threats, Hate Mail: Autism Debate Turns Ugly | work=ABC News | date=31 October 2008 | accessdate=30 October 2015 | author=Childs, Dan}} He is also the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine.{{cite web | url=http://www.journals.elsevier.com/vaccine/editorial-board/gregory-a-poland/ | title=Gregory A. Poland | publisher=Elsevier | accessdate=30 October 2015}}
Education
Poland received his BA in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.{{cite web | url=http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/2007/SP_EMERALD_VOL_92_NO_2_SPRING_2007.pdf | page=31 | title=Poland selected to head Defense Health Board | publisher=The Emerald of Sigma Pi | accessdate=22 August 2016 | author=Dibble, Adam | archive-date=16 May 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516143603/http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/2007/SP_EMERALD_VOL_92_NO_2_SPRING_2007.pdf | url-status=usurped }}{{cite web |title=Gregory Poland, MD, MATh, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP(London) |website=nanovaccine.iastate.edu |publisher=Iowa State University |url=https://nanovaccine.iastate.edu/people/gregory-poland-md/ |access-date=16 March 2024}} He received his MD from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1981.{{cite web | url=http://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/poland-gregory-a-m-d/bio-00078220 | title=Gregory Poland Bio | publisher=Mayo Clinic | accessdate=30 October 2015}} Poland also received an MA in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary.
Research and activism
Poland is known for researching the immunogenetics of responses to certain vaccines, including smallpox vaccines.{{cite web | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-most-dangerous-vaccine/ | title=The Most Dangerous Vaccine | work=CBS News | date=11 December 2002 | accessdate=30 October 2015 | author=Rather, Dan}} He has also written about the negative impacts of the false claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism,{{cite journal|last1=Poland|first1=Gregory A.|last2=Jacobson|first2=Robert M.|title=The Age-Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|date=13 January 2011|volume=364|issue=2|pages=97–99|doi=10.1056/NEJMp1010594|pmid=21226573}} and is an outspoken advocate of mandatory influenza vaccination. After developing tinnitus after his COVID vaccination he has called for better safety studies. {{Cite web |last=Poland |first=Gregory A. |date=2024-08-14 |title=Better safety studies could restore America's confidence in vaccines |url=https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/14/better-vaccine-safety-studies-restore-confidence-vaccines/ |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=STAT |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last1=Poland |first1=Gregory A. |last2=Kennedy |first2=Richard B. |date=April 2022 |title=Vaccine safety in an era of novel vaccines: a proposed research agenda |journal=Nature Reviews Immunology |language=en |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=203–204 |doi=10.1038/s41577-022-00695-3 |pmid=35197577 |pmc=8864453 |issn=1474-1741}}
Department of Defense
In 2007, Poland was named by President George W. Bush to be president of the Health Defense Board. This board answers to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.{{Cite web |url=http://health.mil/About-MHS/Other-MHS-Organizations/Defense-Health-Board |title=Defense Health Board - Federal Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense | Health.mil |access-date=22 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823004717/http://health.mil/About-MHS/Other-MHS-Organizations/Defense-Health-Board |archive-date=23 August 2016 |url-status=dead }} Dr. Poland has also been president of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board and worked for over ten years as a consultant to the department.
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.{{cite web |title=Dr Gregory A. Poland |publisher=Terrapinn |year=2016 |url=https://www.terrapinn.com/conference/vaccine-influenza/speaker-gregorya-POLAND.stm |access-date=16 March 2024}}
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Category:American vaccinologists
Category:Illinois Wesleyan University alumni
Category:Medical journal editors
Category:Physicians from Illinois
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