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About the Author |
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Jonathan Samet |
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| Jonathan M. Samet, M.D., M.S. is Professor and the Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He is the director of the USC Institute for Global Health. Dr. Samet received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College, an M.D. degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1978 -1994, Dr. Samet was at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where he was Professor and Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division in the Department of Medicine. From 1984 through 2008 he chaired the Department of Epidemiology of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and was Director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control. Dr. Samet’s research has addressed the effects of inhaled pollutants in the general environment. He has written and published extensively on active and passive smoking. Dr. Samet served as Consultant Editor and Senior Editor for several of the Reports of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health and he received the Surgeon General’s Medallion in 1990 and 2006 for these contributions. He was co-recipient of the 2008 Alton Ochsner Award and also received the WHO World No Tobacco award in 2007. Dr. Samet was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences |
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