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1. 1. Bellevue Literary Review

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   Published on: 3/19/2008   Last Visited: 3/19/2008

   Publisher: Martin J. Blaser, MD is Frederick H. King Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. Since returning to NYU, where he was a student, in 2000, he has developed several innovative educational programs. Among them, he has promoted narrative skills of medical housestaff, and writing skills of the medical students as an integral part of critical thinking. All students rotating through the Department of Medicine are required to write patient-based essays dealing with philosophy, ethics, humanities or scientific reasoning. Dr. Blaser established the Bellevue Literary Review as a forum for literature dealing with many of these same issues. Dr. Blaser divides his time between teaching, patient care, and research. His research focus, for more than 25 years, has been the role of bacteria in human diseases, as well as studies of their basic biology and evolution. He has authored more than 400 original papers, and is currently president of the Infectious Disease Society of America.

2. 2. 2000 Richard J. Duma/NFID Annual Press Conference and Symposium on Infectious Diseases

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   Published on: 3/17/2008   Last Visited: 3/17/2008

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   Martin J. Blaser, M.D.
   
   Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine and Chairman, Department of Medicine Professor of Microbiology New York University School of Medicine
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   Dr. Martin J. Blaser, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology is Chairman of the Department of Medicine at New York University. He also serves on the Subspecialty Board on Infectious Diseases of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and on editorial boards of seven biomedical journals, and was Councilor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
   
   Dr. Blaser is well-known for his contributions to our understanding of bacterial infections of humans. He has published over 320 original papers, most of which concern the pathogenesis, epidemology, and molecular biology of bacterial diseases. His work has particularly focused on Campylobacter species and Helicobacter pylori. Dr. Blaser was one of the pioneers in our understanding of the role of Helicobacter pylori in ulcer disease and in gastric cancer. His 1990-1992 New England Journal of Medicine papers established the role of the organism in gastritis and gastric cancer, and elucidated the major transmission pathways for the organism. Three of the four major strain differences among H. pylori (including cagA, vacA, and iceA) originated in his laboratory. He has developed an overall model of the equilibrium relationship between H. pylori and humans based on experimental studies and mathematical analysis that explains the interactions of H. pylori with its hosts, and serves as a model for other persistent indigenous organisms in humans.
   
   Most recently he has developed the hypothesis that H. pylori, while increasing risk for both ulcer disease and gastric cancer, decreases risk for important esophageal diseases including adenocarcinoma of the esophagus. His hypothesis is a revolutionary insight into the role of indigenous organisms and protection from disease.
   
   Dr. Blaser has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Epidemiological Society. He has organized and chaired International meetings and symposia on H. pylori, the Bacteriology and Mycology Study Section of NIH, and has been a consultant to the NIH, CDC, EPA and U.S. Army. He received the Young Investigator Award from the Western Society for Clinical Investigation, the Squibb Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, been a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University, Professor InvitÈ (4 times) at Institut Pasteur, and holds 16 U.S patents. He is President of the Foundation for Bacteriology, which has established the Virtual Museum of Bacteria (bacteriamuseum.org).

3. 3. Bellevue Literary Review

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   Published on: 3/19/2008   Last Visited: 3/19/2008

   Publisher: Martin J. Blaser, MD is Frederick H. King Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. Since returning to NYU, where he was a student, in 2000, he has developed several innovative educational programs. Among them, he has promoted narrative skills of medical housestaff, and writing skills of the medical students as an integral part of critical thinking. All students rotating through the Department of Medicine are required to write patient-based essays dealing with philosophy, ethics, humanities or scientific reasoning. Dr. Blaser established the Bellevue Literary Review as a forum for literature dealing with many of these same issues. Dr. Blaser divides his time between teaching, patient care, and research. His research focus, for more than 25 years, has been the role of bacteria in human diseases, as well as studies of their basic biology and evolution. He has authored more than 400 original papers, and is currently president of the Infectious Disease Society of America.