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• Gregory A. Poland, M.D., FIDSA, MACP, FRCP (London) is a physician-scientist and the founding and current director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group - a state-of-the-art research group and laboratory that seeks to understand genetic drivers of viral vaccine response and application of systems biology approaches to the generation of immunity, as well as the development of novel vaccines against emerging pathogens important to public health. The Poland lab developed the field of viral vaccine immunogenetics, the immune response network theory, and the field of vaccinomics and adversomics. Dr. Poland holds the academic rank of professor of medicine and infectious diseases and molecular pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. He is the Distinguished Investigator of the Mayo Clinic, and is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Vaccine.
• Elizabeth P. Clayborne, MD, MA Bioethics is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine with an academic focus on ethics, health policy, end of life care, health disparities, and innovation/entrepreneurship. She developed a novel epistaxis device, bleedfreeze.com, as a resident and in 2015 was awarded the NSF I-Corps grant which helped to launch her company Emergency Medical Innovation, LLC. She is the former Chair of the MedChi Committee on Ethics and Judicial Affairs, serves on the Ethics Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is an active member of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, the American Medical Association and the National Medical Association. Please follow her on Twitter and Instagram @DrElizPC
• Medscape is the leading online global destination for physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide, offering the latest medical news, expert perspectives, and relevant professional education and CME. Twitter @Medscape @MedscapeCME

Poland and Clayborne sit on the steering committee for Medscape Education's Neutralizing the Pandemic Clinical Advances center, a clinician resource offering expert commentaries, CME opportunities, and new insights that aim to improve health outcomes for all patients. https://www.medscape.org/sites/advances/neutralizing-antibodies

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