Aileen Maria Marty is an

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expert and a professor at the

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Early life and education

Born in

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, Marty moved to the United States, at the age of four years old, when her family left Cuba following the

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of 1959, moving first to

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and then to the United States. She joined the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

, and while in the Navy graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1982. In the Navy, Marty achieved the rank of Commander in the mid-1990s. She was appointed to the Homeland Defense Committee in 2001 by Admiral James A. Zimble. She was in the Navy for 25 years, and retired in 2003.

Career

Marty is known for her work on infectious diseases, including

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in Miami, Ebola,

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, and monkeypox. While in the Navy she led training courses for civilians on weapons on how to respond to biological and chemical attacks, and studied old cases of anthrax at the

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. As of 2022 Marty is co-editor-in-chief of the journal ''One Health''.

Honors and awards

In 2015, the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation department honored Marty for her work on diseases such as Ebola and malaria. In September 2021, singer

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nominated Marty for ''

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''s "Inspiration List".

References

External links

Aileen Maria Marty, MD, FACP
biography at the

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