Outbreaks and Pandemics: The Life of a Disease Detective with Dr. Nicholas Daniels '88

Outbreaks and Pandemics: The Life of a Disease Detective is the life story of Dr. Nicholas Daniels and how he overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to attain professional success. Through his journey from poverty to the Ivy League to becoming an infectious disease epidemiologist, he chronicles an American dream come true.
This book profiles infectious diseases during outbreaks and pandemics. It highlights lessons learned and ways we can prepare now for the next pandemic. His journey as a medical doctor, disease detective, and an international public health expert took him across the globe to tackle public health challenges and mysteries related to a variety of potentially deadly infectious diseases. Based upon epidemic intelligence, Dr. Daniels tells stories of medical disease detectives and infectious pathogens and our constant struggle to survive them.

Nicholas A. Daniels, MD, MPH, is a foodborne disease expert specializing in the prevention of foodborne diseases. Dr. Daniels has a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Daniels completed his residency in the department of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, is board certified in internal medicine, has a Master's in Public Health from Yale University, held a fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, and has served as a medical disease detective and consultant for the World Health Organization in Southeast Asia. He was a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and San Diego. He is currently a consultant at Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona

6:00pm reception; 6:30pm lecture, gratis. Advance registrations required.