Gregory A. Poland

Gregory A. Poland is an American physician and vaccinologist. He is a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as well as the director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. He is also the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine.

Education Poland received his BA in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He received his MD from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1980. Poland also received an MA in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. He has also written about the negative impacts of the false claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism, and is an outspoken advocate of mandatory influenza vaccination.

Department of Defense In 2007, Poland was named by President George W. Bush to be president of the Health Defense Board. Dr. Poland has also been president of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board and worked for over ten years as a consultant to the department.