Joseph B. McCormick is a physician, scientist, and educator from the United States.

Biography

Early life

Joseph B. McCormick was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on October 16, 1942. His early years were spent on a farm in Indiana.

Education

Florida Southern College Florida Southern College (Florida Southern, Southern or FSC) is a private college in Lakeland, Florida. In 2019, the student population at FSC consisted of 3,073 students along with 130 full-time faculty members. The college offers 50 undergradu ...

. 1964 Graduated cum laude. Majored in chemistry and mathematics.

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. 1967 - 1971 Harvard School of Public Health. 1970 Masters of Science Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 1971 - 1973 Internship and residency in Pediatrics (under Dr.

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) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 1975 - 1976 Fellow, Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Early career

Following graduation from college, he located in

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and attended the

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and the Free University for a year. He learned the French language to enable him to teach sciences and mathematics in a secondary school in

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. While living in the Congo, he worked in a local hospital and developed an interest in medicine and specifically tropical diseases.

Medical career

In 1974, following his residency training, he was appointed an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the CDC. In 1993, he was appointed Chairman of Community Health and Sciences at the

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Medical School (AKU). He established an epidemiology program, similar to the CDC. In 1997 he returned to France where he started epidemiology programs for the

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and for Aventis Pasteur, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. He became Assistant Dean, University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, at Brownsville campus on January 1, 2001.

Milestones

McCormick studied patients with Lassa fever while in Africa. After clinical testing, he found that prompt and aggressive treatment with ribavirin significantly improved patient survival. Dr. McCormick has over 200 scientific publications with co-authors from over 20 different countries. He has held several university positions and had over 30 consultancies with organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization. He has acted as reviewer for many scientific journals. Dr. McCormick was interviewed in 2006 for the television program

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"The Age of Aids" produced by the

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Volunteer work

1969 Summer Fellowship with the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama,

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1971 Summer Fellowship in Rural Health Clinics in

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Academic appointments

Regional Dean, James H. Steele Professor of Epidemiology, U. of Texas Houston School of Public Health
Professor, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Health Sciences,

, Karachi, Pakistan
Visiting Scientist at

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Adjunct Professor at Emory University
Adjunct Professor at University of North Carolina
Member, Scientific Board, Centre Internationale de Recherche Medical (CIRMF), Paris, France
Membre du Groupe d'Etudes de Virologie de L’Institut Pasteur (1984 -1990)

Awards and honors

He is the recipient of humanitarian awards from Florida Southern College and Duke University Medical School.

Personal life

He is an accomplished amateur pianist, and enjoys outdoor activities such as running, cycling, back packing, skiing and fly-fishing. Dr. McCormick is fluent in several languages. He is married to a fellow epidemiologist Dr.

Susan Fisher-Hoch Susan P. Fisher-Hoch (born 1940) is a British-born infectious-disease specialist who has made major contributions to the understanding of Legionnaires' disease and Lassa fever. She is the co-author, along with her husband Joseph B. McCormick, of ...

Publications (books, articles)

Joseph B. McCormick is a co-author with Fisher-Hoch of the book ''Level 4: Virus Hunters of the

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References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20150613021107/http://blue.utb.edu/sfisherhoch/coinstructors.htm Joseph B. McCormick, University of Texas Health Science Center *http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/mccormick.html PBS Interview with Dr. McCormick {{DEFAULTSORT:McCormick, Joseph B. Living people American tropical physicians Harvard School of Public Health alumni Florida Southern College alumni Duke University School of Medicine alumni Academic staff of Aga Khan University American expatriate academics American expatriates in Pakistan Year of birth missing (living people)