Disease Knows No Politics - Zerhouni, Elias; Kriz, Edward
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Disease Knows No Politics is an inspirational political and medical memoir that strikes into the heart of a post-pandemic America where conspiracy theories have run amok.

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Disease Knows No Politics is an inspirational political and medical memoir that strikes into the heart of a post-pandemic America where conspiracy theories have run amok.
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An accomplished public servant, Dr. Elias Zerhouni served as the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health (the first Arab American and immigrant to do so) under President George W. Bush and as a presidential envoy for science and technology under President Barack Obama. Elias has been a global health research senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a consultant to the World Health Organization, and a consultant to the White House under President Ronald Reagan, among other duties. He's currently an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Elias is professor emeritus of radiology and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of more than 200 publications, and an inventor whose research has saved countless patients with suspected lung or breast cancer from unnecessary surgeries and advanced the field of cardiovascular MRI. An entrepreneur, Elias is president of OPKO Health, a multinational biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company, and co-founder and chairman of OPKO's ModeX Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative, multi-specific biologic drugs for cancer and infectious diseases. Edward James Kriz is a nonfiction author, novelist, and screenwriter, with a BA in creative writing (fiction and nonfiction) from Oberlin College, where he was mentored by acclaimed authors Dan Chaon and Sylvia Watanabe. As a screenwriter represented by Zero Gravity, James has several feature film projects in development. He's collaborated with production companies across the globe, from Romania, to Los Angeles, to Beijing. James' screenwriting has been honored by Franklin Leonard's The Black List site, scoring in the top percentile of thousands of scripts.