12 Facts About David Relman

David Relman was an undergraduate at MIT and graduated in 1977.

David Relman did his internship, residency, and a clinical infectious diseases fellowship year at Massachusetts General Hospital.

David Relman completed his infectious diseases and microbiology research training as a postdoctoral fellow with Stanley Falkow at Stanford University.

David Relman began his independent career as a physician-scientist with a research focus in microbial pathogenesis and soon thereafter became interested in the discovery and identification of previously-unrecognized microbial pathogens.

David Relman joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1994 and has remained there since.

David Relman was an early pioneer in the study of the human microbiome using these and other modern molecular methods, and published some of the first broad molecular surveys of the human oral and gut microbiota.

David Relman serves as the Chief of Infectious Disease at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.

David Relman has served in a number of United States government advisory capacities, particularly on biosecurity issues.

David Relman received the Pioneer Award and the Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health.

David Relman is currently a member of the Intelligence Community Studies Board at NAS, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the Defense Science Board at the Department of Defense.

David Relman is the son of the late Arnold "Bud" David Relman, longtime editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

David Relman was a long-time volunteer for the Rock Medicine program organized by the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, and served as its Chief Medical Officer for about a decade 2006.