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David Relman, M.D.

David Relman, M.D., is associate professor of medicine, and of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University. He is also chief, infectious diseases section, at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in Palo Alto, California.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Relman holds an S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his M.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Medical School in 1982. Following postdoctoral clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Internal Medicine and in Infectious Diseases, Dr. Relman served as a postdoctoral research fellow in microbiology at Stanford University in the laboratory of Stanley Falkow from 1986 until 1992. He joined the Stanford University faculty in 1992 and was appointed associate professor (with tenure) in 2001.

His research is directed towards the characterization of the human indigenous microbial communities of the mouth and gut, with emphasis on understanding variation in diversity, succession, the effects of disturbance, and the role of these communities in chronic periodontitis and inflammatory bowel disease. Experimental approaches include molecular phylogenetics, ecological statistics and metagenomics. A second area of research examines the classification structure of humans and non-human primates with systemic infectious diseases, based on genome-wide gene transcript abundance patterns from blood and other tissues. The goals of this area of work are to recognize classes of pathogen and predict clinical outcome at early time points in the disease process, as well as gain further insights into virulence (e.g., of variola and monkeypox viruses). See http://relman.stanford.edu

Dr. Relman received the Squibb Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2001) and the Senior Scholar Award in Global Infectious Diseases from the Ellison Medical Foundation (2002). He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and was named Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2003.

Dr. Relman currently serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and on the Board of Directors of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has been co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare. He was recently appointed to a four-year term on the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, and advises several US Government agencies on matters related to microbial pathogen detection and future biological threats.