Alan Zelicoff is a physician (board certified in Internal Medicine 1992, clinical
fellowship in Rheumatology, 1983) and physicist (AB 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.
The result of this activity is a real-time clinician-based disease surveillance and
reporting system called the Syndrome Reporting Information System (SYRIS) which is
now being used by public health officials responsible for monitoring the health of more
than 1.25 million people in Texas and countless agricultural animals and wildlife as
well.
Zelicoff is the author of: “Microbe: Are we ready for the next Plague?”
published by AMACOM Books. And his latest book is “More Harm than Good”, a
practical look at the reasons for costly medical practice in the United States. He is the
author of numerous medical and public health text book chapters, and is a frequent
contributor to Op-Ed pages in the Washington Post, Albuquerque Journal and other
newspapers.
Web site: http://www.zelicoff.com
Alan Zelicoff is a physician (board certified in Internal Medicine 1992, clinical
fellowship in Rheumatology, 1983) and physicist (AB 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. 