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Gregory A. Poland
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Gregory A. Poland is an American physician-scientist and vaccinologist. He is a named professor of medicine and a distinguished investigator of the Mayo Clinic and the director of its Vaccine Research Group,[1] which he founded. Poland has been a medical advisor to four U.S. presidents and is the immediate past editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine. He is an editor-in-chief of the journal Longevity Science and Medicine.[2] He is co-director of the Atria Research and Global Health Institute and president of the Atria Academy of Science and Medicine.

Early life and education

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Poland's father was a career officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Poland became interested in medicine at the age of four, when his finger was severed by a closing door and reattached. He and his mother and siblings were in Hawaii at the time, as his father was stationed there. In his youth, Poland had a chemistry set, learned how to make gunpowder for launching rockets, dissected small animals, and studied his own blood under a microscope.[1] During high school, he was a janitor at a medical building, where he borrowed medical texts and reagents from physicians.[1]

Poland studied biology and graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) in 1977.[1][3] He graduated from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIUSOM) in 1980,[4] and subsequently attended the University of Minnesota for advanced post-graduate residency training.[1] He studied and earned a Master's degree in theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in 2022.[5][6][7]

Career

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Poland is a vaccinologist and expert in the prevention of infectious diseases.[1] He became a physician in 1980.[5] Poland is a professor of medicine, infectious diseases, molecular pharmacology, and experimental therapeutics at Mayo Clinic. He founded and directs Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, which the SIUSOM has said "created the field of viral vaccine immunogenetics and the immune response network theory, helping develop novel vaccines important to public health".[4][8] He is the co-director of the Atria Research and Global Health Institute.[9] Poland has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research on vaccines since 1991.[6]

Poland has been a medical advisor to four U.S. presidents,[4] including Joe Biden. World has credited him for providing "consultative advice to nearly every Western vaccine manufacturer", including Moderna and Pfizer.[10] He has advocated for mandatory influenza vaccination of health care personnel.[11] He also coined the terms "cryptic adverse events",[12] "vaccinomics",[13] and "adversomics".[14] As of 2021, Poland and his daughter Caroline, who is a licensed mental health counselor, have been studying ways to improve COVID-19 and other vaccine acceptance.[15] In 2025, Poland said the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System should be strengthened and "large, ongoing studies are needed to help researchers work out who is at increased risk of vaccine injuries and how to reduce that risk", according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[16]

Poland is the founding president of the Edward Jenner Society and the immediate past editor-in-chief of its medical journal Vaccine.[17] He has also been the president of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board and was appointed as the president of the Defense Health Board by U.S. President George W. Bush.[1][18] Poland has been a member of IWU's School of Nursing and Health Science advisory council and is on the steering committee of the National Network for Immunization Information.[19][20] He is a past member of the board of trustees for Taylor University.[21] In 2009, Poland was the chair of the American College of Physicians' Adult Immunization Advisory Board.[22] Poland served multiple terms on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,[23] as well as the National Vaccine Advisory Committee[24] and the Food and Drug Administration's Vaccine and Regulatory Advisory Committee.[25] He has also represented the American College of Physicians,[26] the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID),[27] and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.[28][29]

Poland was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service by President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, the United States Secretary of Defense, for his work related to biodefense and infectious diseases prevention. Poland has also received a MERIT Award from the NIH,[1] a Department of Medicine Lifetime Research Achievement Award from Mayo Clinic, and a distinguished alumni award from SIUSOM.[4] Poland received the inaugural Gold Medal from the Spanish Vaccinology Society in 2001[30] and the Dr. Charles Mérieux Award for Achievement in Vaccinology and Immunology from the NFID in 2006.[31]

Personal life

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Poland met his wife at IWU in 1975.[1] Poland is also the assistant pastor of a Presbyterian church in Florida.[10]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Wing, Matt. "Waging War on COVID-19". Illinois Wesleyan University.
  2. ↑ "Longevity Science and Medicine: Editors-in-Chief". ScienceDirect.
  3. ↑ "Poland '77 Provides Expertise on Coronavirus Vaccine Development". Illinois Wesleyan University. November 30, 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Alumnus shares perspective from a career of pursuing cures". Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. December 6, 2023.
  5. 1 2 "A Healer of Body and Soul". Coastal Breeze News. January 18, 2019.
  6. 1 2 "Gregory Poland, MD, MATH, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP (LONDON)". Nanovaccine Institute (Iowa State University).
  7. ↑ "Class notes: 1980s". Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
  8. ↑ Vollmer, Dana (January 23, 2021). "IWU Alum Leading Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research On COVID Misconceptions". WGLT.
  9. ↑ Kekatos, Mary (March 31, 2025). "Do you need another measles vaccine dose? Experts reveal who is protected". ABC News.
  10. 1 2 Freire, Emma (March 23, 2023). "Pandemic prescriptions". World. ISSN 0888-157X.
  11. ↑ Childs, Dan (October 30, 2008). "Death Threats, Hate Mail: Autism Debate Turns Ugly". ABC News.
  12. ↑ Poland, Gregory A; Black, Steven (March 19, 2024). "Cryptic vaccine-associated adverse events: The critical need for a new vaccine safety surveillance paradigm to improve public trust in vaccines". Vaccine. 42 (8): 1,860-1,862.
  13. ↑ "Vaccinomics: A scoping review". Vaccine. Vol. 41, no. 14. March 31, 2023 – via ScienceDirect.
  14. ↑ "Vaccinomics and Adversomics in the Era of Precision Medicine: A Review Based on HBV, MMR, HPV, and COVID-19 Vaccines". Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9 (11): 3,561. 2020. The term vaccinomics was first used by Hoffman et al. in 1998 and extensively studied by Gregory A. Poland and the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group... By definition, vaccinomics explores the influence of genetic (and non-genetic) factors on the heterogeneity of vaccine-induced immune responses between individuals and populations. While vaccinomics has been more focused on vaccine effectiveness, the field of adversomics was again first introduced by Poland, this time in 2009, and this is more concerned about the side effects of vaccines.
  15. ↑ Tidd, Jason (April 9, 2021). "Here's how to talk — and listen — to Kansans hesitant on COVID vaccines, doctors say". The Wichita Eagle. McClatchy. ISSN 1046-3127. OCLC 20386511.
  16. ↑ Gleeson, Hayley (April 26, 2025). "Raina MacIntyre's book Vaccine Nation celebrates vaccines. It's also a warning". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  17. ↑ "Current Executive Committee". Edward Jenner Society.
  18. ↑ Hansel, Jeff (May 26, 2005). "Mayo Clinic's Poland to lead high-security advisory panel". Post-Bulletin.
  19. ↑ "Illinois Wesleyan Expands School of Nursing to Include Health Sciences". Illinois Wesleyan University. March 15, 2023.
  20. ↑ "Gregory A. Poland, MD". National Network for Immunization Information.
  21. ↑ "Taylor University Graduate Catalog 2014-15: Board of Trustees" (PDF). Taylor University. p. 44.
  22. ↑ "Seasonal flu still will kill many; early shots urged". The Columbus Dispatch. USA Today Co. ISSN 1074-097X. OCLC 61311972.
  23. ↑ Mary, Kekatos (June 11, 2025). "What may be next for CDC's vaccine advisory committee after RFK Jr. removed all its members?". ABC News. Dr. Gregory Poland, a vaccinologist and president and co-director of the Atria Research Institute -- who previously served two terms on the ACIP and then two terms as a liaison...
  24. ↑ "A Pathway to Leadership for Adult Immunization: Recommendations of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee". Public Health Reports. Vol. 127. January–February 2012. OCLC 889405256.
  25. ↑ Mishra, Manas; Steenhuysen, Julie (December 10, 2020). "U.S. FDA advisers overwhelmingly back authorizing Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine". Reuters.
  26. ↑ "Protecting Our Forces: Improving Vaccine Acquisition and Availability in the U.S. Military". National Academies Press. 2002.
  27. ↑ Orenstein, Walter A; Simon, Raphael (May 4, 2016). "Introduction to issue of highlighted research presented at the 2015 National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Annual Conference on Vaccine Research". Vaccine. Vol. 34, no. 30. pp. 3, 522–3, 524.
  28. ↑ "Epidemic of fear". Cape Cod Times. October 31, 2005. ... Dr. Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic Medical School in Minnesota, representing the Infectious Diseases Society of America, recently told Congressional staffers and lobbyists
  29. ↑ Hobson, Katherine (November 16, 2016). "Want To Prevent The Flu? Skip The Supplements, Eat Your Veggies". NPR. ... says Gregory Poland, a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic.
  30. ↑ "Current Executive Committee". Edward Jenner Society.
  31. ↑ "Dr. Charles Mérieux Award for Lifetime Achievement in Vaccinology and Immunology". National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
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