
David Relman, MD
Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor, Departments of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine; CISAC Co-Director; FSI Senior Fellow
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Academic Profile- Stanford School of Medicine
David Relman is the Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor, Departments of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stanford School of Medicine, the co-director of CISAC, and a senior fellow at FSI. He joined CISAC as an affiliated faculty member in November 2011 and became co-director in January 2013.
He is also chief, Infectious Diseases Section, at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Among his other activities, Dr. Relman currently serves as Vice-President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Chair of the U.S. National Academies of Science Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats, and member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity.
He received a S.B. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977) and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School Medicine (1982).
Publications
The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome
Elizabeth Costello, Keaton Stagaman, Les Dethlefsen, Brendan J.M. Bohannan, David Relman
Science vol. 336, 6086 (2012)
Incomplete recovery and individualized responses of the human distal gut microbiota to repeated antibiotic perturbation
Les Dethlefsen, David Relman
PNAS vol. 107, 39 (2010)

The biological century: coming to terms with risk in the life sciences
David Relman
Nature Immunology vol. 11, 4 (2010)

Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity?
Arturo Casadevall, David Relman
Nature Reviews Microbiology vol. 8, 2 (2010)




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