| Alan Zelicoff
Dr. Alan Zelicoff is a board certified physician in Internal Medicine and physicist (AB Princeton, 1975), who has had a varied career including clinical practice, teaching, and operations research. In the latter roles, he was Senior Scientist in the Center for National Security and Arms Control at Sandia National Laboratories from 1989- 2003. Dr. Zelicoff’s interests include risk and hazard analysis in hospital systems and officebased practice, and in technologies for improving the responsiveness of public health offices and countering biological weapons terrorism.
Dr. Zelicoff has traveled extensively in countries of the former Soviet Union and has led joint research projects in epidemiology of infectious disease, while establishing Internet access at Russian and Kazak biological laboratories. The result of this activity is a real-time clinician-based disease surveillance and reporting system called the Syndrome Reporting Information System (SYRIS) which is now being used by public health officials responsible for monitoring the health of more than 1 million people in Texas. The State of California legislature has recently passed a bill to test this approach in order to modernize disease surveillance in the state. Dr. Zelicoff is the author of "More Harm than Good", "Doctor, Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There" and "Microbe: Are We Ready for the Next Plague?" (Amacom Books). He is a frequent contributor to Op-Ed pages in the Washington Post and other newspapers.
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