Michael T. Osterholm

Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D, M.P.H., the former Minnesota
State epidemiologist and former Chair and CEO, ican, INC.,
has been an internationally recognized leader in the area of
infectious diseases for the past two decades. He is the
recipient of numerous honors and awards from the CDC, NIH,
FDA, and others, and served as a personal advisor to the
late King Hussein of Jordan on bioterrorism. He has led
numerous successful investigations into infectious disease
outbreaks of global importance. A frequent lecturer around
the world, he is Director of the Center for Infectious
Disease Research and Policy and is a professor at the School
of Public Health, University of Minnesota.