Unavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered

Dr. Edward Geehr, author of Unavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered, is a graduate of Yale University with Honors, and Duke University Medical School. He completed a residency and research fellowship in Emergency Medicine at UCLA and became board certified in that specialty. He maintains a private medical practice. Dr. Geehr has served as an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, was Chief of Emergency Services at San Francisco General Hospital, and medical director for the city’s EMS system. In addition to his academic and clinical experience, Dr. Geehr was a co-founder of IPC The Hospitalist Company which provided inpatient medical services to hospitals and later global head of operations for a pharmaceutical company. In the latter position he observed firsthand the interaction between the drug industry, regulators, and academia. Dr. Geehr was founding president of the Wilderness Medical Society, an international medical society with a focus on medicine in remote environments, and co-editor of the medical textbook Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies. Dr. Geehr is a board member and Medical Director of Evolution Haiti, Inc. a non-profit foundation that supports an orphanage and medical services in Haiti. He is married, has three children and six delightful grandchildren.