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David Relman, MD   Download vCard
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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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).