Robert L. Pollock is a board certified internal medicine physician in New York. He is Assistant Professor of Medicine at SUNY Buffalo's Jacobs School of Medicine. He is a former editorial

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and Wall Street Journal editorial board member. He was born in

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. He studied at

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. Pollock joined the ''Wall Street Journal Europe'' in

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as an editorial page writer in 1995. He moved to ''

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s headquarters in

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in 2000 as an assistant features editor. In 2002 Pollock became an editorial writer and in 2005 he joined the Editorial Board. From 2007-2012 he was the Journal's editorial features (op-ed) editor. Pollock was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in 2003 for his editorials on the American

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(FDA) and its delaying of cancer drug approval. He won the 2006 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Review and Outlook: Kianna's Law". Pollock makes frequent appearances on television shows such as that on

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as well as radio appearances on WABC and NPR. http://giving.jefferson.edu/content/dam/oia/bulletins/spring2016/Robert%20Pollock.pdf

References

External links

''WSJ'' bio

UCLA Anderson School of Management - Gerald Loeb Awards - Robert Pollock bio
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